[Serous papillary adenocarcinoma of the endometrium]
Arkhiv Patologii
|September 2, 2004
Abstract:
Serous-papillary endometrial adenocarcinoma (SPEA) accounts for 10% of endometrial carcinoma. Histological similarity with ovarian carcinoma originating from the cylioepithelial cyst is explained by the same histogenesis from Muller epithelium analogs. The description is given of SPEA with essential content of psammotic bodies, embolism and development of intramural, cervical, parametral and lymphogenic metastases. A relatively benign clinical picture of SPEA psammotic variant does not correlate with aggressiveness of the tumor growth.
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