Practical issues related to uterine pathology: endometrial stromal tumors
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Practical Issues in Endometrial Pathology
Breakdown Breakdown is a very common cause of endometrial bleeding, it is explained by continuous estrogen effect which is the origin of fibrin thrombi and because of this there is stromal condensation and epithelial metaplasia finally resulting in significant fragmentation. Because of these changes the breakdown can be confused with a stromal or and epithelial proliferation and as a good rule ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Modern Pathology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0893-3952,1530-0285
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2015.140