Endometriosis, Cytological Findings

Rana S. Hoda, Abha Goyal, Susan Alperstein
In: Encyclopedia of Pathology · 2017 · pp. 130–135 · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-33286-4_866 · W4253045364
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This paper defines endometriosis as endometrial cell implants outside the uterus, exploring its poorly understood etiology and pathogenesis, including retrograde menstruation and immune dysfunction.

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This encyclopedia entry defines endometriosis as the presence of benign endometrial cells outside the uterine corpus, notes that its etiology and pathogenesis are not fully understood, and summarizes proposed mechanisms including retrograde menstruation and possible immune dysfunction with inflammatory pathway upregulation. It reviews epidemiologic incidence estimates across groups such as women of reproductive age, those with pelvic pain, and women with infertility, and it mentions genetic risk in relation to endometriosis and endometriosis-associated ovarian carcinomas. The major limitation is that it is a general descriptive overview rather than an original cytological study, so no specific cytology dataset or diagnostic performance results are provided. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it focuses on the definition, proposed pathogenesis, and incidence framing relevant to cytological findings in the setting of endometriosis.

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