title: Hysteroscopic endomyometrial resection of three uterine sarcomas.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe our experience with three uterine sarcomas associated with hysteroscopic endometrial ablation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cohort study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).
  
  
  METHODS
  University-affiliated teaching hospitals.
  
  
  METHODS
  Three of 2402 women undergoing hysteroscopic endometrial ablation who had uterine sarcomas.
  
  
  METHODS
  Hysteroscopic endomyometrial resection.
  
  
  RESULTS
  One low-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma and two carcinosarcomas were resected. After hysterectomy in two patients, no residual cancer was identified in one of them. The third patient was an 82-year-old woman with moderate menorrhagia who refused hysterectomy. After endomyometrial resection she remained amenorrheic for the last 14 months of her life.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  From our experience the incidence of uterine sarcomas is approximately 1/800 women undergoing hysteroscopic ablation for abnormal uterine bleeding. Complete endomyometrial resection is feasible and may be offered as diagnostic and palliative therapy in women at high risk for hysterectomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Joseph's Health Care Centre, University of Western Ontario, 268 Grosvenor Street, London, Ontario N6A 4V2, Canada.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Vilos
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Harding
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Sugimoto
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Ettler
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Bernier
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016889:Endometrial Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D004717:Endometrium / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D015907:Hysteroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D018570:Risk Assessment; D018203:Sarcoma, Endometrial Stromal / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome