[Improved diagnosis of endometrial cancer]

Over the last few decades, carcinoma of the endometrium, the most common genital carcinoma in women, has become more and more important. For a long time, intensive efforts to improve its early detection remained unsuccessful. Not until the introduction of vaginal ultrasonography was a decisive step forward achieved in the early detection of this carcinoma on the basis of an assessment of endometrial thickness. In clinical studies, measurement of endometrial thickness by intravaginal ultrasonography has proved an outstanding parameter for the early detection of endometrial neoplasia, even in asymptomatic postmenopausal women.