title: Percutaneous ultrasound guided uterine needle biopsy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the safety, accuracy and usefulness of percutaneous ultrasound guided uterine needle biopsy.
  
  
  METHODS
  Transabdominal uterine biopsy was performed with an ultrasound directed biopsy gun. The biopsy was performed as an outpatient procedure under local anaesthesia.
  
  
  METHODS
  The safety, accuracy and clinical value of the procedure; a comparison of the clinical and ultrasound diagnoses with the biopsy and surgical histological diagnoses; and the effect of the biopsy result on the choice of treatment by the surgeon and patient.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were no complications. Accuracy was validated in all seven patients who subsequently had surgical procedures and more extensive myometrial histological investigation. Biopsy diagnosis improved clinical diagnosis in nine of the ten patients, and altered or assisted in the ultrasound diagnosis in eight of the ten patients. Decisions concerning choice of treatment by the doctor or patient were assisted by the biopsy result in seven patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Percutaneous ultrasound guided uterine needle biopsy is a useful procedure in the diagnosis of myometrial disease.
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University, Clayton, Vic.
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Wood
authors: V A
authors: VA
authors: Hurley
authors: D W
authors: DW
authors: Fortune
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Leoni
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000379:methods*; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000473:pathology; D008067:Lipoma / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009215:Myometrium / Q000473:pathology; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014591:Uterine Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D014599:Uterus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*