Endometrial hyperplasias and some endometrial carcinomas arise in a setting of estrogen excess. Steroid hormones interact with cells via specific receptors; assessing receptor levels may indicate a tissue's potential for interaction with th…
To investigate whether pressure-overloaded left ventricular hypertrophy is associated with changes in tissue composition of left ventricular subendocardial (ENDO) and subepicardial (EPI) myocardium, we studied post-mortem 19 normal hearts, …
Estimation of mitotic activity by counting the number of mitotic figures per high power fields is subject to many sources of error. The microscope fields vary in size in different microscopes, which makes comparisons arbitrary. Also the are…
The prognosis of prostate cancer depends largely on the degree of differentiation. Therefore the pathologist plays an important part in diagnosis and therapeutic decisions. There are three different growth patterns: glandular, cribriform, a…
The histology and ultrastructure of small endometriotic lesions were studied in 19 patients before and after hormonal therapy with the anti-progesterone steroid R 2323 (Gestrinone). Histologic results demonstrate that treatment of endometri…
The frequency and characteristics of intestinal metaplasia of the stomach were studied in autopsy material of 68 Chilean adults, with ages ranging from 30 to 79 years. Metaplasia was found in 76.5% of the cases, which is in agreement with t…
UNLABELLED: Peritoneal glial implants are found in childhood, adolescence as well as in young women and are the result of a ruptured capsule of mature or immature teratoma of the ovary. The implants of glia nodules have a distinct gross fea…