“…The vagina is lined by noncornified, stratified, squamous epithelium; glandular epithelium is not normally present in the vagina. However, glandular epithelium of the endocervical type has been reported either as surface columnar epithelium replacing the normal squamous epithelium of the vagina or as mucous secreting cysts or crypts in the dermis (Bonney & Glendinning 1910; Plaut & Dreyfuss 1940; Stabler 1961; Sandberg et al 1965; Siders et al 1965; Stafl 1974; Robboy 1986).…”