[Quantitative morphological studies on the variability of the epithelial height of the human Fallopian tube mucosa]

Analysing statistically the parameters of the own morphometric observations, quantitative-morphologic investigations of tube epithelium of 47 women, distributed in various age groups, indicate following results: In the oviducts of younger fertile women a cyclic changes of the height of the epithelium is characteristical of the structure of the human oviduct. Cyclic changes of the epithelial height exist also in the uterine tube of aging women of premenopausal age, while the follicle growth and the development of corpus luteum take place in the ovarium. In the oviducts of aging women the height of the epithelium is average greater than the one of organs of younger individuals. In the oviduct a flattened epithelium results by ovarian atrophy, postmenopausally.