title: [The relationship between the pathologic features of the uninvolved endometrium and prognosis in postmenopausal endometrial carcinoma].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the relationship between the pathologic features of the uninvolved endometrium and prognosis in postmenopausal endometrial carcinoma.
  
  
  METHODS
  The clinicopathologic features of 204 cases of endometrial carcinoma were analyzed retrospectively, according to the proliferative and atrophic uninvolved endometrium, a long term follow-up was done.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The patients with proliferative uninvolved endometrium (PUE) were more much related with the clinical risk factors than those of atrophic uninvolved endometrium (AUE) (P < 0.001). AUE cases had more virulent types of nonendometrial carcinoma than those of PUE (27% vs 5.5%, P < 0.001), and had much worse grade, much deeper myometrial invasion and much vascular invasion (P < 0.001). The overall 5-year survival rate was 96.7% in the PUE cases and 86.2% in the AUE cases (P < 0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The histopathologic types of the uninvolved endometrium were related to the prognosis of the patients with endometrial carcinoma. The patients with proliferative uninvolved endometrium had better prognosis than those with atrophic uninvolved endometrium.
authors.affiliation: Obstertric and Gynecologic Hospital of Shanghai Medical University.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Du
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D000368:Aged; D018269:Carcinoma, Endometrioid / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D016889:Endometrial Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D004717:Endometrium / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D017698:Postmenopause; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate