| Normal Myometrium
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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
• Muscular wall varying in thickness dependent on patient's age and gravidity
• Tan, firm and rubbery
•Examples:
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General Microscopic Description
• Composed of smooth muscle cells in interweaving fascicles.
• Collagen and elastin are also present but most prominent in the cervix which has a much less muscular
stroma.
• In labor the myometrium contracts to passively dilate the cervix which has had collagen and
elastin digestion by collagenase and elastase.
•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. 1034-1035.
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| Normal Myometrium
| | Synopsis by: Melinda Sanders M.D. (T85000M00100)[262]
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