[Pressing problems of the intravital morphological diagnosis of pathological states of the endometrium]

The important problems of morphological diagnosis of the endometrium conditions by scrapings are dealt with. The necessary information in the features of the functional organization of the normal and pathological endometrium as well as the required histochemical and histoenzymatic methods of examination are presented. The principles of diagnosis of glandular hyperplasia and atypical glandular hyperplasia of the endometrium and of differential diagnosis from highly diffentiated variants of endometrium cancer are described. The influence of hormonal therapy on endometrial carcinomas is discussed. It is emphasized that pathologists should give due consideration to the clinical data. A sample of the form for sending of the endometrial scrapings into the laboratory is presented.