Difference between revisions of "Endometrial hyperplasia"

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*#Cytoplasmic vacuolization.
*#Cytoplasmic vacuolization.
*#Intraluminal secretions.
*#Intraluminal secretions.
*Proliferation-type epithelium.
*Proliferative-type epithelium. †
**Mitoses.
**Nuclear atypia.
**Pseudostratified epithelium.


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*Bell and Ostrezega<ref name=pmid3610133>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Bell | first1 = CD. | last2 = Ostrezega | first2 = E. | title = The significance of secretory features and coincident hyperplastic changes in endometrial biopsy specimens. | journal = Hum Pathol | volume = 18 | issue = 8 | pages = 830-8 | month = Aug | year = 1987 | doi =  | PMID = 3610133 }}</ref> give a laundry list for differentiating ''benign secretory endometrium'' from ''hyperplasia with secretory changes'': focal architectural abnormalities, metaplastic ciliated & "clear" cells, sharp luminal border, epithelial pseudopalisading, nuclear atypia, vesicular nuclei, mitoses.
* † This is ''not'' precisely defined.  I suppose it is some of the things Bell and Ostrezega<ref name=pmid3610133/> mention (mitoses, nuclear atypia, pseudostratified epithelium).
**Bell and Ostrezega<ref name=pmid3610133>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Bell | first1 = CD. | last2 = Ostrezega | first2 = E. | title = The significance of secretory features and coincident hyperplastic changes in endometrial biopsy specimens. | journal = Hum Pathol | volume = 18 | issue = 8 | pages = 830-8 | month = Aug | year = 1987 | doi =  | PMID = 3610133 }}</ref> give a laundry list for differentiating ''benign secretory endometrium'' from ''hyperplasia with secretory changes'': focal architectural abnormalities, metaplastic ciliated & "clear" cells, sharp luminal border, epithelial pseudopalisading, nuclear atypia, vesicular nuclei, mitoses.


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