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Adenomyosis is defined as a benign invasion from the endometrium into the myometrium, producing a diffuse increase in the uterus, showing under a microscope non-neoplastic endometrial glands and stroma surrounded by hypertrophic and hyperplastic myometrium [1]. Siegler and Camilien [2] define adenomyosis as the presence of endometrial and corium glandular cells on more than 2.5 mm from the endometrium-myometrium interface.
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De Nicola, A.L.A., de Souza, L.R.M.F. (2017). Adenomyosis. In: de Souza, L., De Nicola, A., De Nicola, H. (eds) Atlas of Imaging in Infertility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13893-0_7
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