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Vaginosonographic detection of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women
Author(s) -
Osmers R.,
Völksen M.,
Rath W.,
Kuhn W.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1016/0020-7292(90)90979-u
Subject(s) - medicine , endometrial cancer , curettage , endometrium , postmenopausal women , gynecology , prospective cohort study , uterus , dilation and curettage , cancer , obstetrics , radiology , pregnancy , abortion , genetics , biology
In a prospective study 155 postmenopausal women not on hormone treatment underwent a vaginal ultrasound investigation. All women were routine patients of the regular ambulance. In addition to uterus biometry, the endometrial thickness was also measured. An endometrium of ≥4 mm thickness was clarified histologically by means of a curettage. In total we found 7 endometrial cancers and 1 cervical cancer. Vaginal sonography proved to be a very sensitive (81%) and specific (89%) method for the detection of endometrial neoplasia.