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Chronic endometritis: Histology
• Inflammatory cells
– may infiltrate the wall of glands
– may concentrate around vessels
• These aspects may normally be present at menstruation
Diagnosis at histology may be missed
Altered leucocyte populations in CE
Cells
Presence
Authors
Neutrofils
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Kitaya et al., 2010
B cells (also in the functional layer of the endometrium)
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Kitaya et al., 2010; Kitaya et al., 2015; Matteo et al., 2009
CD56 bright lymphocyte (uterine NK cells)
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Matteo et al., 2009
T cells
=
Kitaya et al., 2010
Natural killer cells
=
Kitaya et al., 2010
Macrophages
=
Kitaya et al., 2010
Plasmacytes (stroma)
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Czernobilsky, 1978; Gilmore et al., 2007; Kitaya et al., 2010
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