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==Subtypes - overview==
==Subtypes - overview==
They are commonly grouped based on clinicopathologic features:<ref name=pmid21309259>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Lim | first1 = D. | last2 = Oliva | first2 = E. | title = Nonendometrioid endometrial carcinomas. | journal = Semin Diagn Pathol | volume = 27 | issue = 4 | pages = 241-60 | month = Nov | year = 2010 | doi =  | PMID = 21309259 }}</ref>
They are commonly grouped based on clinicopathologic features:<ref name=pmid21309259>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Lim | first1 = D. | last2 = Oliva | first2 = E. | title = Nonendometrioid endometrial carcinomas. | journal = Semin Diagn Pathol | volume = 27 | issue = 4 | pages = 241-60 | month = Nov | year = 2010 | doi =  | PMID = 21309259 }}</ref><ref name=Ref_GP241>{{Ref GP|241}}</ref>
#Type I:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
#*Histologic types:
!Feature
#**Endometrioid (most common).
!Type I
#**Mucinous.
!Type II
#*Clinical characteristics: premenopausal, estrogen excess.
|-
#Group II:
|Histologic types
#*Histologic types:
|[[endometrioid endometrial carcinoma]], [[mucinous endometrial carcinoma]]
#**Serous carcinoma.
|[[serous carcinoma of the endometrium]], [[clear cell carcinoma of the endometrium]]
#**Clear cell carcinoma.
|-
#*Clinical characteristics: postmenopausal, no estrogen excess, poor prognosis.
|Clinical <br>characteristics
 
| premneopausal, estrogen excess, [[endometrial hyperplasia]]
The most common as a list:
| postmenopausal, no estrogen excess, atrophic endometrium
#Endometrioid - '''most common''', patient typically is 55-65 years old and obese.
|-
#Serous - patients classically older than endometrioid subtype, arise in atrophic endometrium.
|Prognosis
#Clear cell.
| good
| poor
|-
|Genetic <br>abnormalities
| microsatellite instability, PTEN & KRAS mutations
| p53 mutations
|}


==Grading (FIGO)==
==Grading (FIGO)==
48,830

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