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1986624

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1 Pt 1
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-2-13
pubmed:abstractText
Diagnostic curettage has for many years been the method of choice to diagnose endometrial cancer in women with postmenopausal bleeding. The costs for curettage performed today are huge, and approximately only 10% in this group of women will be diagnosed with endometrial cancer. Thus less expansive techniques to obtain endometrial samples have been evaluated, but all of them are invasive. The value of endovaginal ultrasonography for identifying endometrial abnormality in this group of women has not been evaluated until now. This study used endometrial thickness as measured by endovaginal ultrasonography as an indicator of endometrial abnormality. It was demonstrated in 205 women with postmenopausal bleeding that if the endometrium was less than 9 mm thick, no endometrial cancer was found at curettage. The mean endometrial thickness in those women with endometrial cancer was 18.2 +/- 6.2 mm as compared with 3.4 +/- 1.2 mm in those women with atrophic endometrium. If the cutoff limit for endometrial abnormality was 5 mm, the positive predictive value for identifying endometrial abnormality was 87.3%. If this limit had been used in this study, 70% of the curettage procedures could have been avoided.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0002-9378
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
164
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
47-52
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Endometrial thickness as measured by endovaginal ultrasonography for identifying endometrial abnormality.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Göteborg, Sahlgrenska Hospital, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't