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- adjective cytology Resembling
endometrial tissue
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Examples
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Pathological analyses showed the predominance of endometrioid type (24. 4%) and clear-cell type (21. 9%) types in EAOC compared to OC, P = 0.0070 and 0.0029, respectively.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Aziz Aris 2010
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Previous studies have correlated their overexpression with poor prognosis and decreased tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in various carcinomas including uterine endometrioid carcinomas, and mounting evidence supports an immuno-inhibitory role in ovarian cancer prognosis.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Xingxing Zang 2010
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"Overall, 46 percent of patients with ovarian clear-cell carcinoma and 30 percent of those with endometrioid carcinoma had ... mutations in ARID1A," they wrote.
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Normal endocervical epithelium usually expressed cyclin D1, although staining was typically focal, and there was increased immunoreactivity in reactive and metaplastic glandular cells including tubo-endometrioid metaplasia.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Leonie Little 2010
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Inclusion criteria: Patients with a clinical stage I endometrioid adenocarcinoma or complex atypical hyperplasia are randomized in a 2: 1 allocation to receive TLH or TAH.
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Hendrix-Lucas N, Kuick R, Zhai Y, Schwartz DR, et al. (2007) Mouse model of human ovarian endometrioid adenocarcinoma based on somatic defects in the Wnt / beta-catenin and PI3K / Pten signaling pathways.
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Dinulescu DM, Ince TA, Quade BJ, Shafer SA, Crowley D, et al. (2005) Role of K-ras and Pten in the development of mouse models of endometriosis and endometrioid ovarian cancer.
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An endometrioma, endometrioid cyst, endometrial cyst, or chocolate cyst is caused by endometriosis, and formed when a tiny patch of endometrial tissue (the mucous membrane that makes up the inner layer of the uterine wall) bleeds, sloughs off, becomes transplanted, and grows and enlarges inside the ovaries.
Find Me A Cure 2008
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"This targeted approach holds great promise for patients with uterine cancer (endometrioid endometrial) tumors that contain the FGFR2 mutation" said TGen physician-in-chief, Dr. Daniel Von Hoff, "and offers yet another powerful example of how genomic medicine is changing the way we look at and treat cancer"
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The altered FGFR2 is present in the cancer cells of nearly 15 percent of women with endometrioid endometrial tumors.
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