Open AccessSonographic Criteria for Uterine Curettage: Suspecting Endometrial Neoplasia
Author(s) -
Ahmed Samy El-Agwany
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.231
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 0976-6952
pISSN - 0975-7651
DOI - 10.1007/s13193-019-00976-9
Subject(s) - medicine , endometrium , endometrial cancer , curettage , endometrial hyperplasia , endometrial biopsy , gynecology , hysteroscopy , endometrial polyp , atypical hyperplasia , biopsy , carcinoma , radiology , obstetrics , cancer , pathology
The aim of the work is to determine the Suspicious sonographic findings associated with endometrial hyperplasia or cancer in premenopausal and perimenopausal women requiring uterine curettage other than endometrial thickness. Transvaginal ultrasonography examinations of premenopausal and perimenopausal women were reported here. These women underwent endometrial biopsy based on abnormal uterine bleeding or discharge and sonographic endometrial abnormalities. Histologically, hyperplasia was found in PCOS patients, endometrial cancer on top of tamoxifen therapy was found in others. The highly related ultrasound criteria are thick irregular endometrium, ill-defined endometrial myometrial junction, myometrial invasion with pseudowidening of the endometrium, turbid intrauterine fluid collection, associated complex adnexal masses, and cystic areas in the endometrium. Endometrial stripe abnormality by transvaginal ultrasonography is considered to be important in the recommendation of endometrial biopsy to exclude cancer along with positive complains in addition to thickness abnormalities.