Chlamydia trachomatisin the Endometrium: Can Surgical Pathologists Identify Plasma Cells?On: Plasma cell endometritis is associated with Chlamydia trachomatis infection. Paukku M Puolakkainen M Paavonen T et al.Am J Clin Pathol1999;112:211–5
作者:
Sharon Mount,
Philip Mead,
Kumarasen Cooper,
期刊:
Advances in Anatomic Pathology
(OVID Available online 2001)
卷期:
Volume 8,
issue 6
页码: 327-329
ISSN:1072-4109
年代: 2001
出版商: OVID
关键词: Chlamydia trachomatis;Endometritis;Sexually transmitted disease;Plasma cells
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Chlamydia trachomatisinfection is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease. The authors examined the relation between chronic endometritis, which they term plasma cell endometritis (PCE), and chlamydial infection using plasmid-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and immunohistochemical staining (IHC) of paraffin-embedded endometrial sections.C. trachomatisinfection was detected in 5 (24%) of 21 cases of PCE and in 1 (4%) of histologically normal endometrium. The diagnosis of chronic endometritis (with plasma cells confirmed by methyl green pyronin staining) was correctly made in 74% of the cases originally diagnosed as PCE and in 23% of control cases originally diagnosed as normal. The authors conclude that the histopathologic finding of plasma cells in endometrial samples should encourage further examination for chlamydial infection.
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