Abstract
Recent evidence points towards a substantial disturbance of the process of angiogenesis within the endometrium in women who are exposed continuously to low dose contraceptive progestogens. This results in the patchy appearance of abnormally small and abnormally large, thin-walled vessels in the superficial regions of exposed endometrium. Three-dimensional pictures were developed from digitised images of serial tissue sections of endometrium in which microvascular endothelial cells were labelled with antibodies to the endothelial cell surface antigen, CD34 and their basement membranes labelled with anti-Collagen IV antibodies. Microvessels from endometrium exposed to continuous low-dose levonorgestrel from a subdermal implant system (Norplant) displayed considerable variations in size and shape. No spiral arterioles were identified. Some microvessels showed considerable dilatation, distortion and variability in the presence of surrounding basement membrane components. Other endothelial structures included narrow, solid cords of endothelial cells, without basement membranes, which often connected with normal or abnormal vessels containing lumens. Some areas, especially deeper in the tissue, contained microvessels of normal size a...Continue Reading
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