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 {{Main|Arias-Stella reaction}}
 *Benign atypical endometrial changes associated with chorionic tissue -- may be seen in a completely normal pregnancy and misdiagnosed as a malignancy.<ref name=pmid11756756>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Arias-Stella | first1 = J. | title = The Arias-Stella reaction: facts and fancies four decades after. | journal = Adv Anat Pathol | volume = 9 | issue = 1 | pages = 12-23 | month = Jan | year = 2002 | doi =  | PMID = 11756756 }}</ref>
+==Endometritis==
+===General===
+*Post-delivery.
+*Post-instrumentation, e.g. previous biopsy.
+===Microscopic===
+====Acute====
+Features:
+*Neutrophils clusters (>5 PMNs) in the:
+**Endometrial stroma.
+**Within uterine glands.
+Notes:
+*Neutrophils are normal in the context of menses.
+Image:
+*[http://www.hsc.stonybrook.edu/gyn-atlas/UT53.10.1.htm Acute endometritis (stonybrook.edu)].
+====Chronic====
+Features:
+*Plasma cells with in the endometrial stroma - '''key feature'''.
+Notes:
+*One plasma cell is not enough to call it.
+Images:
+*[http://www.webpathology.com/image.asp?n=2&Case=565 ]Chronic endometritis (webpathology.com)].
+*[http://www.webpathology.com/image.asp?n=3&Case=565 Chronic endometritis (webpathology.com)].
 ==Endometrial polyp==