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Chronic Endometritis
D efinition — Chronic inflammatory process within the uterus often associated with infection.
Clinical Features
Epidemiology
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Chronic endometritis (CE) is thought to represent an infectious process.
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CE is strongly associated with the presence of pelvic inflammatory disease and acute salpingitis.
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Virtually all organisms described that can cause sexually transmitted diseases have been implicated in CE.
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In young patients the most common cause is infection during a recent pregnancy/delivery.
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