title: [Role of office hysteroscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of uterine pathology].
abstract: Nowadays endoscopic techniques are one of the basic diagnostic and operative methods in gynecology. Laparoscopy and hysteroscopy are the most popular of them. Office hysteroscopy is a modern diagnostic and therapeutic method feasible in an outpatient room because no necessity of anesthesia. It is the first-line procedure in the infertility diagnosis and treatment of uterine pathology such as polyps, submucosal fibroids and adhesions. Limitation of this method is the cervical canal atresia. Contraindications to it are: pregnancy, uterine bleeding, active inflammation of pelvic organs, cervical cancer. Due to the high sensitivity and specificity, simplicity of execution and no need for patient hospitalization, office hysteroscopy becomes important diagnostic and therapeutic procedure in uterine pathologies.
authors.affiliation: Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Department of Gynecology and Urogynecology.
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marciniak
authors.affiliation: Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Department of Gynecology and Urogynecology.
authors.forename: Jolanta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nawrocka-Rutkowska
authors.affiliation: Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Department of Gynecology and Urogynecology.
authors.forename: Berenika
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wiśniewska
authors.affiliation: Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Department of Gynecology and Urogynecology.
authors.forename: Iwona
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Szydłowska
authors.affiliation: Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Department of Gynecology and Urogynecology.
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brodowska
authors.affiliation: Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Department of Gynecology and Urogynecology.
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Starczewski
mesh_terms: D000075202:Contraindications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015907:Hysteroscopy; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000175:diagnosis; D011247:Pregnancy; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014591:Uterine Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*
keywords: diagnosis; office hysteroscopy; uterine pathology