Transvaginal hysterosonography: comparison with biopsy in the evaluation of postmenopausal bleeding

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine : Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
Theodore J DubinskyN Maklad

Abstract

Transvaginal sonography is a highly sensitive method for detecting endometrial thickening. In the postmenopausal woman such thickening is non-specific and can be due to hyperplasia, polyps, submucosal endoluminal fibroids, or carcinoma. In such cases, transvaginal sonography combined with transvaginal hysterosonography may assist in the workup of these endometrial processes. We compared the combination of transvaginal sonography and transvaginal hysterosonography to aspiration endometrial biopsy in the evaluation of women with postmenopausal bleeding. We prospectively performed transvaginal sonography in 148 women within 1 month (range, 10 days to 2 months) after having had an aspiration endometrial biopsy. Transvaginal hysterosonography was then performed in 81 of these women who had endometrial thickness greater than 5 mm. In these 81 patients, transvaginal hysterosonography confirmed 45 lesions: 23 pedunculated endometrial masses and 22 inhomogeneous sessile lesions. Women with positive transvaginal hysterosonography examinations then underwent hysteroscopy or hysterectomy, whereas women with negative examinations were followed conservatively. Forty-one of the 45 cases with endoluminal masses on transvaginal hysterosonograph...Continue Reading

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