title: [Comparative study of diagnostic hysteroscopy and transvaginal ultrasonography in patients with abnormal uterine hemorrhage during the peri- and post-menopausal period].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic value of hysteroscopy and transvaginal ultrasonography in patients with abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) in the peri and postmenopausal period.
  
  
  METHODS
  302 patients with AUB, underwent hysteroscopy and in 86 cases, also a transvaginal ultrasonography before hysteroscopy was performed. Results were compared with the histological diagnosis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The diagnostic accuracy of hysteroscopy was very high in the cases of endometrial carcinoma (sensibility 100%, specificity 99%), and lower in the cases of endometrial hyperplasia (sensibility 69%, specificity 72%) and endometrial atrophy (sensibility 29% and specificity 97%). Sonography proved to be less reliable in the diagnosis of endometrial pathology (carcinoma: sensibility 57%, specificity 100%, hyperplasia: sensibility 62.5% specificity 63%). The results of this study show that sonography may be used as a first choice diagnostic test in the investigation of women with AUB.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Hysteroscopy represent a second diagnostic step for achieving a proper histologic diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Discipline Ginecologiche ed Ostetriche, Università degli Studi, Torino.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barbero
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Enria
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pagliano
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Canni
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nicolaci
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Bertini
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bocci
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bocci
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chiara
mesh_terms: D004714:Endometrial Hyperplasia / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D015907:Hysteroscopy; D008593:Menopause; D008875:Middle Aged; D017698:Postmenopause; D017697:Premenopause; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014592:Uterine Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*
vernacular_title: Studio comparativo tra isteroscopia diagnostica ed ecografia transvaginale in pazienti con sanguinamento uterino anomalo in epoca peri- e postmenopausale.