Table 6.
Immunohistochemistry of vimentin in eutopic and ectopic endometrium.
| Eutopic Endometrium (Phases) | Ectopic Endometrium (Entities) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refs | All (n) | Without EM | with EM | Scores | p-Value | All (n) | Ov. EM | PE | DIE | Scores | p-Value |
| [91] | 29 P, S |
29 | n.d. | 188 a P, 140 ES 93 b LS |
<0.01 a/b | 31 | n.d. | 31 black | n.d. | 63 P, 80 ES, 55 LS | n.s. |
| [92] | 20 | n.d. | 20 | 342 a P, 252 b S | <0.01 a/b | 20 | 20 | n.d. | n.d. | 185 c P, 130 d S | ≤0.05 c/d |
| [40] | 32 | 14 | 18 | 10.5 a | n.d. | 199 | 55 | 30 red 46 black |
68 | 1.5 b/34.3 red c/63.4 black d/20.5 e | <0.0001 a/c,d,e <0.0001 b/c,d,e |
| [78] | 41 | 20 | 21 | 10% a/23.8% b | n.s. | 21 | 21 | n.d. | n.d. | 61.9% c | 0.0278 b/c 0.0009 a/c |
| [79] | 40 | 40 | n.d. | (~0.23) | n.d. | 40 | 40 | n.d. | n.d. | (~0.44) | <0.01 |
| [67] | 23 | 12 | 11 | (~20 a/~90) | 0.01 | 11 | 11 | n.d. | n.d. | (~95 b) | <0.01 a/b |
| [88] | 50 | 20 | 30 | 65/76 72 a both |
n.s. | 78 | 30 | 27 | 21 | 15 b/46 c/94 | <0.01 a/b <0.001 b/c |
Refs, references; % denotes the percentage of stained samples; EM, endometriosis; Ov. EM., ovarian endometriosis; PE, peritoneal endometriosis; DIE, deep infiltrating endometriosis; n.d., not done; n. sp., not specified; n.s., not significant; P, proliferative; S, secretory; ES, early secretory; LS, late secretory. Superscript letters denote the statistical comparisons.