title: Successful diagnostic and surgical hysteroscopy for endometrial ossification.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Diagnostic-operative hysteroscopy was successful in two cases of endometrial ossification, and fertility was restored.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 30-year-old and a 32-year-old woman presented at our Department with a history of secondary infertility, complaining of pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea and polymenorrhea which lasted for about one year before admission. Previous ultrasound studies revealed the presence of two bright hyperechogenic bands with posterior shadowing.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In both cases diagnostic-operative hysteroscopies were performed, displaying osseous fragments which were removed with resectoscopy, mainly mechanically.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Hysteroscopic resection should be the elective treatment for endometrial ossification because it allows complete removal of osseous fragments and reduces the chance of residual synechia. The mean objective of hysteroscopy in endometrial ossification is the restitution of conceivement capability.
authors.affiliation: 2nd Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology La Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pace
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Torcia
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Palazzetti
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Piazze
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cipriano
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pachì
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004717:Endometrium / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015907:Hysteroscopy; D009999:Ossification, Heterotopic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014591:Uterine Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*