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. 2023 Jun 16;12(4):243-245.
doi: 10.4103/gmit.gmit_89_22. eCollection 2023 Oct-Dec.

Endometrial Osseous Metaplasia: An Hysteroscopic Incidental Finding - An Overview

Gianluca Raffaello Damiani  1 , Daniele Di Gennaro  1 , Antonio Malvasi  1 , Antonella Vimercati  1 , Vera Loizzi  1 , Maria Gaetani  1 , Tommaso Di Fonzo  1 , Miriam Dellino  1 , Gerardo Cazzato  1 , Ettore Cicinelli  1 , Giuseppe Trojano  1
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Endometrial Osseous Metaplasia: An Hysteroscopic Incidental Finding - An Overview

Gianluca Raffaello Damiani et al. Gynecol Minim Invasive Ther. .

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Abstract

Endometrial osseous metaplasia (EOM) is an uncommon clinical entity with the presence of bone in the endometrium which requires clinical and therapeutic framework. It is also described by various other names such as endometrial ossification, ectopic intrauterine bone, and heterotopic intrauterine bone. Ossification could have various locations as the cervix the ovary, and the vagina. This overview highlights the attention on the actual pivotal points of EOM.

Keywords: Ectopic bone; metaplasia; miscarriage.

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