Difference between revisions of "Endometrium"

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===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref>URL: [http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/uterus.html#endopolyp http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/uterus.html#endopolyp].</ref>
Features:<ref>URL: [http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/uterus.html#endopolyp http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/uterus.html#endopolyp]. Accessed on: 15 September 2011.</ref>
*Large blood vessels (muscular) - '''key feature'''.
#Large blood vessels (muscular) - '''key feature'''.
*Fibrotic stroma - '''key feature'''.
#Fibrotic stroma - '''key feature'''.
*Polypoid shape - epithelium on three sides.
#Polypoid shape - epithelium on three sides.
**May not be seen... as polyp is fragmented on removal.
#*May not be seen... as polyp is fragmented on removal.


Notes:
Notes:
*Endometrial glands may be out of phase with surrounding endometrium.
#Apparently benign polyps should be examined closely at the surface for in situ & invasive malignancies.
#Endometrial glands may be out of phase with surrounding endometrium.
**Often proliferative.
**Often proliferative.
*+/-Cystic dilation of glands.
#+/-Cystic dilation of glands.
*Cellular stroma.
#Cellular stroma.


==Disordered proliferative phase==
==Disordered proliferative phase==
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