Office Hysteroscopy After Ultrasonographic Diagnosis of Thickened Endometrium in Postmenopausal Patients


Autoria(s): Cordeiro, A; Condeço, R; Leitão, C; Sousa, F; Coutinho, S; Silva, MC; Bernardo, MJ; Mira, R
Data(s)

19/03/2014

19/03/2014

2009

Resumo

The aim of our study was to access office hysteroscopy results in postmenopausal patients with thickened endometrium. A retrospective descriptive study was carried out on 245 postmenopausal patients submitted to office hysteroscopy after sonographic diagnosis of thickened endometriumin 20 consecutive months.Women were evaluated for age, hormonal therapy, hysteroscopic findings, procedure duration, complications and associated pain, and histological diagnosis. Patients with and without uterine bleeding were considered separately. Symptomatic patients were older and had longer procedure duration. The most frequent hysteroscopic finding was endometrial polyp in both groups. Pain was subjectively assessed in a numeric scale from 0 to 10 and median value was 4. There were no complications reported. Global neoplasia rate was 2.9% for asymptomatic patients and 16.4% for symptomatic ones (p<0.05). Thickened endometrium with postmenopausal metrorrhagia gave patients a significantly higher risk for neoplasia and hyperplasia.

Identificador

Gynecol Surg. 2009; 6:317–322

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.17/1735

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Springer-Verlag

Direitos

openAccess

Palavras-Chave #Neoplasias do Endométrio #Histeroscopia #Menopausa #HDE GIN
Tipo

article