| Normal Proliferative 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 2 mm in thickness
•Examples:
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General Microscopic Description
•KEY feature is the presence of glandular and stromal
MITOSES
•glands are straight with cells exhibiting pseudo-
stratification
•no evidence of secretion; blood vessels inconspicuous
•stromal edema present in the mid portion of the cycle
•dating is not attempted
•Examples:
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Clinical Correlation
•presence of proliferative endometrium is
normal in the
follicular phase of the cycle
•growth under estrogen stimulation as a response to
FSH and LH
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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 Proliferative Endometrium
| | Synopsis by: Melinda Sanders M.D. (T84000M79310)[13]
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