Benign Diseases of the Endometrium

Robert J. Kurman
In: Pathology of the Female Genital Tract · 1982 · pp. 279–310 · doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-1767-9_12 · W1962799988
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This paper categorizes benign endometrial diseases as either reactive responses to stimuli or abnormal tissue growths, excluding endometrial neoplasia.

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This chapter reviews benign diseases of the endometrium, organizing them into two groups: conditions reflecting endometrial responses to stimuli such as infections, hormonal abnormalities, drugs, or physical agents, and non-neoplastic abnormal tissue growths. It surveys a wide range of entities including commonly seen endometrial polyps and adenomyosis, plus rarer heterotopias and uncommon tumor types, drawing largely on previously published pathological and clinical literature. A key limitation is that the text is a narrative chapter rather than a study with a specific cohort, methods, or standardized outcomes, so evidence is summarized without a unified experimental design. Relevance to endometriosis: adenomyosis is explicitly mentioned among the benign endometrial growths discussed, while the chapter’s focus is broader endometrial pathology rather than directly studying endometriosis.

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