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Iatrogenic Changes

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Besides oral contraception in young women, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in the peri- and postmenopausal period has become important. HRT has changed from estrogen therapy alone to combined estrogen-gestagen preparations to avoid estrogen-induced carcinogenesis.

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  1. Ludolf-Krehl-Str. 57, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Gisela Dallenbach-Hellweg

  2. Institut für Pathologie, Referenzzentrum für Gynäkopathologie A 2, 2, 68159, Mannheim, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dietmar Schmidt

  3. Institut für Pathologie Konsultations-und Referenzzentrum für Lymphomdiagnostik und Hämatopathologie Universitätsklinikum Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany

    Dr. Friederike Dallenbach

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Dallenbach-Hellweg, G., Schmidt, D., Dallenbach, F. (2010). Iatrogenic Changes. In: Atlas of Endometrial Histopathology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01541-0_7

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