This chapter covers the morphological pattern of diseases that determine female reproductive health. We will examine how inflammatory diseases of the female genital organs develop and what irreversible structural alterations they lead to at the tissue level.
Special attention is paid to dyshormonal diseases of the uterus and mammary glands (including endometriosis and mastopathy), as well as a wide spectrum of tumors of the female genital organs. A separate, complex block is dedicated to pregnancy-related pathology and insidious trophoblastic diseases. The concluding focus of the section is breast cancer, its histological variants and molecular subtypes.
In practical classes and exams, the microscopic differences between cervical and endometrial cancer, the morphology of hydatidiform mole and choriocarcinoma, and prognostic factors in breast cancer are tested most rigorously. Pay special attention to modern histological classifications—they are of critical clinical importance in this topic.