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Is postmenopausal endometrial fluid collection alone a risk factor for endometrial cancer?
Gulin Feykan Yegin Akcay1, Emre Erdem Tas2, Ayse Filiz Yavuz3
1Gulin Feykan Yegin Akcay, MD. Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ankara Ataturk Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Objective:
To determine the usefulness of single-layer, ultrasonographic measurement of endometrial fluid collection (EFC) volume to predict endometrial pathology in asymptomatic postmenopausal patients.
Methods:
One hundred fifty asymptomatic postmenopausal women were analysed retrospectively from January 2012 to December 2016. After patients with endometrial hyperplasia/neoplasia were included in Group-I, and those with insufficient tissue, endometrial atrophy, or endometritis were included in Group-II; Groups one and two were compared with respect to primary (correlations between endometrial thickness and EFC volume) and secondary (correlations between demographic characteristics and EFC volume) outcomes.
Results:
There was no correlation between EFC volume and single-layer endometrial thickness (P = 0.36). Likewise, demographic characteristics were not related to EFC (P > 0.05). However, both EFC volume and single-layer endometrial thickness were thicker in Group-I compared to Group-II (4.8 ± 1.9 mm vs. 3.7 ± 2.5 mm; and 5.7 ± 9.4 mm vs. 2.7 ± 2.5 mm, respectively) (P values were < 0.05).
Conclusion:
Although a cutoff value for endometrial thickness and EFC volume could not be recommended based on our study findings, it should be noted that 2% is a clinically significant rate of malignancy. Thus, postmenopausal patients with EFC should be evaluated for endometrial sampling.
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