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...

Abnormal uterine bleeding is a common gynaecological symptom. Whilst most patients have benign disease, thorough investigation is necessary, particularly in the peri- and post-menopausal woman. Hysteroscopy with directed biopsy of suspicious lesions is the gold standard investigation but it is invasive and is not offered in all units as an outpatient procedure. Ultrasound and outpatient biopsy ...

Adenomyosis is the presence of ectopic endometrial glands and stroma in the myometrium. It traditionally presents with pelvic pain, menorrhagia and dysmenorrhea in the fourth or fifth decade of life. Here, we present a case of adenomyosis presenting with severe menorrhagia at the age of 23 years. Traditionally, adenomyosis is diagnosed in histopathologically, in hysterectomy specimens or myomet...

Objective to assess the efficacy and safety of intrauterine bubivacaine instillation, lidocaine spray and paracervical block in outpatient hysteroscopy Design randomized controlled trial Setting university hospital Method A total of 160 women planned to do office hysteroscopy (outpatient hysteroscopy enrolled in this study). The study was performed using 5mL of isobaric bupivacaine hydrochlorid...

OBJECTIVE A comparison between office hysteroscopy, transvaginal ultrasonography and endometrial biopsy was performed, in terms of detection of intrauterine lesions. A secondary objective was assessment of evaluatory approach in the management of abnormal uterine bleeding in an outpatient setting. DESIGN Prospective observational study. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 54 women were evaluate...

Background: Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) is one of the most common complaints that brings a woman to the gynecologist. Key to successful clinical management of AUB is to identify the cause behind it for which proper evaluation of the case is required. In current scenario of increasing cost awareness and taking risk related to invasive procedure hysteroscopy, a balance has to be achieved betw...

Background: Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) is one of the most common clinical problems in gynecology. Transvaginal sonography (TVS) and hysteroscopy are two diagnostic methods for patients with AUB. For most of the patients with AUB, diagnostic hysteroscopy can be done in clinic with minimal discomfort and much lower expense than operative room. Materials and Methods: In our clinical trial stu...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to assess the accuracy and feasibility of diagnostic hysteroscopy in the evaluation of intrauterine abnormalities in women with abnormal uterine bleeding. SEARCH STRATEGY Electronic databases were searched from 1 January 1965 to 1 January 2006 without language selection. The medical subject heading (MeSH) and textwords for the following terms were used: hys...

Hysteroscopy is the gold standard tool for endoscopic visualization of uterine cavity and it assesses a simultaneous detection treatment intracavitary anomalies with greater accuracy than other methods. The most common abnormalities, including endometrial polyps, submucosal myomas, septum intrauterine adhesions, are in infertile women. It object debate whether diagnostic and/or operative hyster...

BACKGROUND In the auricular maps introduced over the past 50 years by the French and Chinese schools, most organs and systems overlap consistently. One exception is the reproductive system, which shows a markedly different somatotopic representation-for example, for the uterus and the ovary. OBJECTIVE To identify the distribution of points with increased tenderness to pressure or with reduced...