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  • Gynecologic surgery
  • Minimally invasive procedures
  • Reproductive medicine

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  • Nonresectoscopic endometrial ablation is an alternative first-line management for menorrhagia.
  • Patients undergoing these procedures face risks of delayed complications.

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  • To highlight the importance of recognizing normal imaging findings post-endometrial ablation.
  • To inform about potential complications and management challenges.

Main Methods:

  • Review of imaging findings in patients after nonresectoscopic endometrial ablation.
  • Analysis of delayed complications and their imaging characteristics.

Main Results:

  • Common delayed complications include central and cornual hematometra, and postablation tubal sterilization syndrome.
  • Pregnancy and endometrial cancer detection post-ablation present management challenges.

Conclusions:

  • Radiologists must be familiar with normal post-ablation imaging.
  • Awareness of treatment failure causes and delayed complications is crucial for accurate diagnosis and patient management.