[Diagnostic value of endometrial assessment by transvaginal ultrasonography in patients with postmenopausal bleeding]
Objective:
To assess the value of endometrial transvaginal sonography in diagnosis of patients with postmenopausal bleeding.
Methods:
High resolution transvaginal ultrasonographic examination was performed in 192 patients with postmenopausal bleeding before fractional uterine curettage. The results of endometrial sonogram were compared with endometrial histological findings.
Results:
Seventy-seven cases had endometrial thickness < or = 4mm. 74 of them (96.1%) showed physiological changes by pathological examination. Only 3 were endometrial cancer. In contrast, in 115 patients who had endometrial thickness > or = 5mm, 59 (51.3%) had endometrial cancer.
Conclusion:
Transvaginal ultrasonography may be used as a screening procedure in patients with postmenopausal bleeding. Diagnostic uterine curettage may be avoided in patients who had endometrial thickness < or = 4mm.
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