RESUMEN
To find out the incidence of Endometrial Carcinoma in women with postmenopausal bleeding. Design and Observational, cross section study over a period of 18 months.Dept. of Gynaecology and Obstetrics [Unit Ill], Civil Hospital, Karachi.45 patients with postmenopausal bleeding.All these patients were evaluated under anaesthesia, and diagnostic dilatation and curettage was done for histo-pathological assessment of the endometrial lining.Benign lesions accounted for majority [65%] of the causes of postmenopausal bleeding, followed by adenomatous hyperplasia [11.1%], carcinoma endometrium [11.1%] and carcinoma cervix [8.8%].As postmenopausal bleeding still remains to be the commonest symptom of carcinoma endometrium, hence patients presenting with it should be worked up on a priority basis to detect and manage carcinoma at an early stage