| Normal Secretory Endometrium
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Etiology
•not
applicable
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Pathogenesis
•not applicable,
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Epidemiology
•not applicable
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General Gross Description
•tan, soft, measuring up to 4 mm in
thickness
•Examples:
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General Microscopic Description
•KEY feature is the presence of glandular secretions
•glands become tortuous with progression of secretions from
basal vacuoles (d 17-18), supranuclear vacuoles (d 19-20),
active intraluminal secretion (d 21-22)
•spiral arteries become prominent (d 21-22) and develop
predecidual stromal cuffing (d23-24)
•stromal edema develops (d21-22) with subcapsular (d 25) and
full thickness predecidual change (d 26)
•leukocytic infiltrate pronounced by d 27-8.
•Examples:
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References
• Cotran RS, Kumar V, Robbins SL: Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease. 5th ed. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1994, pp. 1035-6
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| Normal Secretory Endometrium
| | Synopsis by: Melinda Sanders M.D. (T84000M79320)[14]
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