title: [Hysteroscopy as a diagnostic method in postmenopausal metrorrhagia].
abstract: We performed 215 hysteroscopies for post-menopausal bleeding. The most common abnormalities found were endometrial hypoatrophy and low-risk hyperplasia, the less common high-risk hyperplasia and adenocarcinoma of the endometrium. The correlation between hysteroscopic view and endometrial sampling was always very high. Hysteroscopy seems to be a very accurate method for evaluating patients with post-menopausal bleeding especially if associated with endometrial sampling.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Ostetrica e Ginecologia R, Università degli Studi di Palermo.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dones
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Maniscalco
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cadili
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004714:Endometrial Hyperplasia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D016889:Endometrial Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D004717:Endometrium / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015907:Hysteroscopy; D008593:Menopause; D008796:Metrorrhagia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged
vernacular_title: L'isteroscopia come metodica diagnostica nelle metrorragie della post-menopausa.