title: [Assessment of endometrial morphology and histology in postmenopausal women].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Evaluate in outpatients, the endometrial morphology and histology of non-bleeding postmenopausal women.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted a descriptive study where 52 menopausal women were selected, between 50 and 60 years of age, who had not used hormone replacement therapy in the last six months and did not present any kind of vaginal bleeding after menopause. These women underwent ultrasound examination, hysteroscopy and biopsy, and then endometrial findings were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 52 women selected, thirty two (61.5%) had normal ultrasound, normal uterine cavity with atrophic endometrium, hysteroscopy, confirmed by endometrial biopsy. Twenty (38.4%) had hysteroscopic and histologic alterations and only five women showed by ultrasound an endometrial thickness of more than five millimeters.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Diagnostic Hysteroscopy associated with aspiration biopsy (Pipelle) performed in the day care facility can reveal endometrial alterations that cannot be diagnosed by transvaginal ultrasound.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Campinas e Centro Assistência Integral a Saúde da Mulher, Campinas, SP.
authors.forename: Luis Paulo Galvao
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Wolff
authors.forename: André Aguiar do
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Monte
authors.forename: Ana Carolina de Souza
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Atti
authors.forename: Ilza Maria Urbano
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Monteiro
mesh_terms: D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D004717:Endometrium / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015907:Hysteroscopy; D008875:Middle Aged; D017698:Postmenopause; D014463:Ultrasonography