Endometrial hormone-receptor assay: a new tool in the investigation on mastodynia. Preliminary report.

As breast dysfunctional pathology does not appear constantly correlated to significant variations of steroid plasma levels, we purposed to verify whether the control of tissutal mechanism of hormone vehiculation can provide more reliable informations, in order to identify early endocrine disorders and to check more properly the effectiveness of the treatment from both a qualitative and a quantitative standpoint. In this view we assayed the receptors for estradiol and progesterone in the endometrium of women with mastodynia and healthy controls, to verify whether endometrial tissue receptivity may be useful in the control of breast tissue receptivity; in fact, both the tissues are hormone-dependent and equally exposed to the hormones of the menstrual cycle.