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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-7-13
pubmed:abstractText
The reproducible identification of various histological types of the endometrium is of special interest for many reasons. The controversy in endometrial classification and terminology led us to study the algorithm of conventional endometrial diagnosing. This study is to examine the significance of historical morphologic parameters for differential diagnosis by semiquantitative or binary recording and computer-assisted evaluation. The results are based on cross-tables and cluster-analysis. The statistical test showed that most of the historical parameters were neither adequate for reclassification nor exclusion of historical typing of the endometrium. An objective and reproducible classification of endometrial changes by using binary parameters can only be achieved for specific histological types of normal endometrium and several types of hyperplastic endometrium. The dedifferentiated carcinoma is a diagnosis "per exclusionem ", since nearly all of the binary parameters cannot be analysed. The individual borderline lesions cannot be differentiated from each other by descriptive parameters. They cannot even be distinguished from the highly differentiated endometrial carcinomas. This kind of differential diagnosis is obviously not based on conventional formalistic criteria but on nonquantifiable empirical data. This might be a reason for the above mentioned controversy in endometrial diagnosis and terminology.
pubmed:language
ger
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0044-4197
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
106
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
421-30
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-2-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
[Potentials and limits of conventional differential diagnosis of the endometrium].
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract