title: Current aspects of gynecological pathology in postmenopause.
abstract: Between 1982 and 1984 330 women in postmenopause for at least one year were admitted to the First Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Catania University Medical School, Catania, Italy, with a frequency of 10.04% of gynecological admissions. The most frequent pathologies were metrorrhagia (32.72%; 108 cases) from an atrophic endometrium or glandular hyperplasia of the endometrium, vaginoperineal lacerations with cystorectocoele with or without urinary incontinence (10.90%; 36 cases), cancer (11.21%; 37 cases) and ovarian cystoma (11.21%; 37 cases), uterine prolapse (9.30%; 31 cases), and endometrial polyps (9.09%; 30 cases). Uterine fibromyoma (3.93%; 13 cases) and carcinoma of the portio (3.93%; 13 cases) were among the rare pathologies. Uterine pathologies were the most prevalent (68.78%; 227 cases), followed by ovarian (15.15%; 50 cases), pathology of involving the pelvic and perineal containment (10.90%; 36 cases), vulvar pathology (2.72%; 6 cases), and vaginal pathology (1.51%; 5 cases). Malignant neoplastic pathology was reported in 25.45% of cases (84 cases) consisting only of uterine cancer (47.61%; 40 cases) and ovarian cancer (45.23%; 38 cases). In comparison with the study performed by Cetroni in 1952 one notes a net reduction in the frequency of uterine prolapse (by about three times), and a smaller reduction in cancer of the uterine cervix with a slight increase in cervical polyps, endometrial cancer, and above all in metrorrhagia from atrophic endometrium or glandular hyperplasia of the endometrium.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Catania University Medical School, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pepe
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Panella
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pepe
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Panella
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: La Spina
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Saia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005833:Genital Neoplasms, Female / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008593:Menopause; D008875:Middle Aged; D014591:Uterine Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology