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Precancerous and Putative Precursor Lesions of Endometrial Carcinoma

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A variety of putative precursor and/or precancerous lesions have been proposed for endometrial carcinoma. The strength of the evidence that establishes each lesion as a precancer or even a precursor varies. All are pictured and discussed in this chapter, including hyperplasia without atypia, complex papillary proliferation of the endometrium, atypical polypoid adenomyoma, serous endometrial intraepithelial carcinoma, endometrioid intraepithelial neoplasia/atypical hyperplasia, endometrial glandular dysplasia, and atypical mucinous glandular proliferation

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Fadare, O., Roma, A.A. (2019). Precancerous and Putative Precursor Lesions of Endometrial Carcinoma. In: Atlas of Uterine Pathology. Atlas of Anatomic Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17931-1_3

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