title: Cervical cytology in patients with postmenopausal bleeding.
abstract: In this study, the role of cervical cytology in the diagnosis of post or perimenopausal (PM) bleeding was explored. A total of 135 patients with PM bleeding were selected. In all these cases both conventional cervical cytology and histopathology follow up were available. The commonest causes of postmenopausal (PM) bleeding with abnormal histopathology were squamous cell carcinoma of cervix (14), endocervical polyp (13), endometrial adenocarcinomas (13) and simple hyperplasia without atypia (13). There were a total 13 cases of endometrial adenocarcinoma and cervical smears of these cases were reported as high grade squamous intra epithelial lesion (1), presence of endometrial cells (4), unsatisfactory due to low cellularity (2), and within normal limit (6). In brief, endometrial carcinoma and hyperplasia are the predominant causes of PM bleeding due to endometrial pathology. The presence of benign looking endometrial cells with PM bleeding always indicates a careful work upto exclude endometrial pathology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cytology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Jasleen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kaur
authors.forename: Pranab
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dey
authors.forename: Subhash Chandra
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Saha
authors.forename: Arvind
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rajwanshi
authors.forename: Raje
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nijhawan
authors.forename: Srinivasan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Radhika
authors.forename: Nalini
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gupta
mesh_terms: D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000473:pathology*; D004717:Endometrium / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017698:Postmenopause; D014592:Uterine Hemorrhage / Q000473:pathology*; D014626:Vaginal Smears