Immunohistochemical research of estrogen and progesterone receptors in the foci of retrocervical endometriosis

Abstract

In investigation of 25 surgical specimens of patients with retrocervical endometriosis the presence of estrogen and progesterone receptors in the foci of retrocervical endometriosis and in endometrium was studied as well as in specimens of these patients received during previous diagnostic curettage. In control group (18 cases) the pieces of endometrium received in women without gynecological pathology were studied. It was revealed that estrogen and progesterone receptors content in the foci of retrocervical endometriosis was lower than in endometrium of fundus of uterus in patients with this disease, the same result was observed in control group.

Keywords

• endometriosis
• estrogen and progesterone receptors
• immunohistochemistry