INTRODUCTION Endometrial thickness is measured by transvaginal sonography and thickening indicates an increased risk of malignancy or other pathology (hyperplasia or polyp) in the postmenopausal period. The main screening methods for the uterine cavity are dilatation and curettage, and hysteroscopy. We sought to correlate hysteroscopic and pathological findings in asymptomatic postmenopausal wo...

Endometrial stromal sarcoma is a rare condition, constituting nearly 0.2% of all reproductive tract malignancies. The condition mainly affects the peri-menopausal population; however, it can occasionally be found in younger women and adolescents. Here, this case 20-year-old primiparous female who was referred to us with main complaint vaginal bleeding (menometrorrhagia), ongoing for 6 months af...

Background: Endometrial curettage is one of the commonest invasive gynecological procedure in reproductive as well as post reproductive age in abnormal uterine bleeding. Objective: To determine the histological types of endometrial lesions in curettage specimens, of women having abnormal uterine bleeding. Methodology: This descriptive study was conducted in Bannu Medical st st College from 1 Ma...

in patients receiving aromatase inhibitors is due to the discontinuation of tamoxifen treatment and not a direct effect of aromatase inhibitors. As we mentioned in our article [1], future clinical trials looking at the endometrial safety of endocrine treatments, particularly those trials involving sequential treatments with selective estrogen receptor modulators and aromatase inhibitors, should...

INTRODUCTION Tamoxifen is the usual endocrine (anti-estrogen) therapy for hormone receptor-positive breast cancer in pre and post-menopausal women. Previous studies have suggested an increased prevalence of endometrial diseases after treatment with tamoxifen. CASE PRESENTATION The authors report a case of 38-year-old woman with diagnosis of endometrial polyp and tubal metaplasia, during puerp...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequencies of histopathological findings in endometrial and endocervical biopsy samples with clinical history of Postmenopausal Bleeding (PMB). STUDY DESIGN Descriptive cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Section of Histopathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, from February 2012 to Janu...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate various histo-pathological features in endometrial curettings of patients complaining of menstrual irregularities with excessive blood loss and correlating them with clinical presentations. METHODS A total of 260 endometrial curettings were obtained by Dilatation and Curettage done at the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Railway Hospital, Rawalpindi. All the pres...