Difference between revisions of "Endometrium"

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Notes:
Notes:
*If a woman is truly postmenopausal, mitoses in the glandular epithelium is pretty much always pathologic.
*If a woman is truly postmenopausal, mitoses in the glandular epithelium is pathologic until demonstrated otherwise.
**Exception is inflammation... e.g. the person has had several biopsy attempts and was seeded with pathogens.
**The exception is inflammation... e.g. the person has had several biopsy attempts and was seeded with pathogens.
 
DDx:
*[[Proliferative phase endometrium]] - esp. if there is pseudostratification.
*[[Serous carcinoma of the endometrium]].


==Endometrial hyperplasia==
==Endometrial hyperplasia==