Limitations of the criteria used to diagnose histologic endometritis in epidemiologic pelvic inflammatory disease research

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 207, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 680-685

  Miguel, Rodolfo D Vicetti ^a   Chivukula, Mamatha ^b   Krishnamurti, Uma ^c   Amortegui, Antonio J ^b   Kant, Jeffrey A ^d   Sweet, Richard L ^e   Wiesenfeld, Harold C ^d   Phillips, Jaclyn M ^a   Cherpes, Thomas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UPSOM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Histologic endometritis; Pelvic inflammatory disease; Plasma cell; Syndecan 1

Indexed keywords

METHYL GREEN; PYRONINE; SYNDECAN 1;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOGENESIS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PLASMA CELL; PREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BIOPSY; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOCYTES; NEUTROPHILS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PLASMA CELLS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNDECAN-1; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82755182534     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: 16180631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2011.08.007     Document Type: Article

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