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In the characterization of endometrial carcinomas there are three possibilities: histologic typing, grading of differentiation, and staging (Poulsen et al. 1975).
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Dallenbach-Hellweg, G., Schmidt, D., Dallenbach, F. (2010). Neoplasms. In: Atlas of Endometrial Histopathology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01541-0_9
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