Premature ovarian failure: morphological and ultrastructural aspects
The authors documented by means of light and transmission electron microscopy that the ovaries of women with premature ovarian failure (POF) displayed dense connective tissue and rare corpora albicantia. Eight of the ten studied cases did not present ovarian follicles; in two cases, it was verified the presence of ovarian follicles, atypical primordial follicles and in one case, a corpus luteum was identified (after stimulation with exogenous gonadotrophin). Regarding the ultrastructural analysis, it was noted that the fibroblasts were united one to each other by cellular prolongations that formed a woof, constituting a cellular syncicius.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Associação Paulista de Medicina - APM
1994
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| Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31801994000200002 |
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