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 *Abbreviated ''EPS''.
 *Previously known as ''syncytial endometritis''.<ref>URL: [http://www.webpathology.com/image.asp?case=565&n=7 http://www.webpathology.com/image.asp?case=565&n=7]. Accessed on: 22 May 2014.</ref>
+{{Main|Exaggerated placental site}}
-===General===
-*Benign.
-Definition:
-*"Increased number" of implantation-site [[Intermediate trophoblast|intermediate trophoblastic cells]].
-Note:
-*Used to go by a terrible old term: ''syncytial endometritis'':<ref name=ouhsc_kfung>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/IACP-OLP/TC-Text/TC-01-Supp.pdf http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/IACP-OLP/TC-Text/TC-01-Supp.pdf]. Accessed on: 15 August 2011.</ref>
-**Not syncytial -- mostly.
-**Not inflammatory.
-===Microscopic===
-Features:<ref name=ouhsc_kfung/>
-*Intermediate trophoblast:
-**Abundant (eosinophilic) cytoplasm.
-*Usu. adjacent to:
-**[[Chorionic villi]].
-**Decidua - endometrial stromal cells with a nucleus central, eosinphilic cytoplasm, well-defined cell borders.
-*No mitotic activity.
-*Ectatic blood vessels.
-DDx:
-*[[PSTT]].
-===IHC===
-*MIB1 ~0%.
-**Used to differentiate from [[PSTT]].
 ==Placental site trophoblastic tumour==