[Suspected abortion: morphologic aspects--value of histological examination of curettage specimen in suspected abortion and extra-uterine pregnancy].

Curettage specimens of 104 patients with clinically suspected abortion and unknown localization have been examined histologically. 50 patients with defined ectopic pregnancy, 51 patients with proved abortion and 50 patients with legal abortion had been used to compare with. In two cases syncytial cells could be proved histologically and by this an abortion could be verified. We could see decidually transformed endometrium in all cases with uncertain or certain formerly intrauterine localization of pregnancy. Opposite to this in ectopic pregnancy we could observe this only in 54 per cent. Summarizing our results in abortions as well as in ectopic pregnancies similar histologic findings could be seen.