Assessment of diagnostic aspiration curettage as an outpatient procedure.
Aspiration curettage proved acceptable to patients and medical staff when incorporated into a busy outpatient practice. The diagnostic reliability of curettings obtained was shown to be 93.5 per cent accurate. In all patients where mucus only is obtained, where symptoms persist or recur, or when aspiration curettage is too distressing, conventional curettage is mandatory.
D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004107:Dilatation and Curettage; D004717:Endometrium / Q000166:cytology; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia / Q000175:diagnosis; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014619:Vacuum Curettage