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Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Vol 14, Issue 12 887-893, Copyright © 1995 by American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Transvaginal hysterosonography: comparison with biopsy in the evaluation of postmenopausal bleeding

T. J. Dubinsky, H. R. Parvey, G. Gormaz, M. Curtis and N. Maklad
Department of Radiology, University of Texas-Houston, LBJ General Hospital 77026, USA.

Transvaginal sonography is a highly sensitive method for detecting endometrial thickening. In the postmenopausal woman such thickening is non-specific and can be due to hyperplasia, polyps, submucosal endoluminal fibroids, or carcinoma. In such cases, transvaginal sonography combined with transvaginal hysterosonography may assist in the workup of these endometrial processes. We compared the combination of transvaginal sonography and transvaginal hysterosonography to aspiration endometrial biopsy in the evaluation of women with postmenopausal bleeding. We prospectively performed transvaginal sonography in 148 women within 1 month (range, 10 days to 2 months) after having had an aspiration endometrial biopsy. Transvaginal hysterosonography was then performed in 81 of these women who had endometrial thickness greater than 5 mm. In these 81 patients, transvaginal hysterosonography confirmed 45 lesions: 23 pedunculated endometrial masses and 22 inhomogeneous sessile lesions. Women with positive transvaginal hysterosonography examinations then underwent hysteroscopy or hysterectomy, whereas women with negative examinations were followed conservatively. Forty-one of the 45 cases with endoluminal masses on transvaginal hysterosonography had false-negative aspiration biopsies. Of the five (11%) lesions that were malignant, three resulted in false-negative biopsies, one biopsy revealed hyperplasia, and only one biopsy was true positive. All 36 women with negative transvaginal hysterosonography examinations also had negative biopsy findings. We conclude that the combination of transvaginal sonography and transvaginal hysterosonography is more sensitive in the detection of endometrial pathologic lesions than is endometrial biopsy, and that transvaginal sonography or transvaginal hysterosonography should be included in the evaluation of women with postmenopausal bleeding.


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