6th ESACP Congress, Heidelberg, April 7-11, 1999

A053
QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION OF THE OVARIAN HISTOSTRUCTURES FROM NORMAL FETUSES AT DIFFERENT GESTATIONAL AGE
Enchev V, Vukov M

National Centre for Health Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria

The aims of this study was to present the data from the morphometric measurements of the variables of the oogonia, oocytes and of the primordial follicles on normal fetuses. They were at different gestational age and were selected according to their appearance after the operation ( age from 21. to 40. gestational week ). By means of a graduated eyepiece-micrometer and standard optical conditions for microscope "Amplival", after a rotation of the grid, we obtained the minor and the major axis lengths of the fetal ovarian structures. We estimated the changes in the quantitative features of these histostructures during the meiotic cycle of the gametes. We evaluated the morphometric variables through the stages of the meiosis as follows: leptotene, zytogene, diplotene, and pachytene phases of the oogenesis.