Difference between revisions of "Endometrial carcinoma"

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|Clinical <br>characteristics
|Clinical <br>characteristics
| premneopausal, estrogen excess, [[endometrial hyperplasia]]
| premenopausal, estrogen excess, obesity
| postmenopausal, no estrogen excess, atrophic endometrium
| postmenopausal, no estrogen excess, atrophic endometrium
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| microsatellite instability, PTEN & KRAS mutations
| microsatellite instability, PTEN & KRAS mutations
| p53 mutations
| p53 mutations
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|Precursor lesion(s)
| [[endometrial hyperplasia]]
| possibly ''endometrial intraepithelial carcinoma''<ref name=pmid22249577>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Roelofsen | first1 = T. | last2 = van Kempen | first2 = LC. | last3 = van der Laak | first3 = JA. | last4 = van Ham | first4 = MA. | last5 = Bulten | first5 = J. | last6 = Massuger | first6 = LF. | title = Concurrent endometrial intraepithelial carcinoma (EIC) and serous ovarian cancer: can EIC be seen as the precursor lesion? | journal = Int J Gynecol Cancer | volume = 22 | issue = 3 | pages = 457-64 | month = Mar | year = 2012 | doi = 10.1097/IGC.0b013e3182434a81 | PMID = 22249577 }}</ref>
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