Study of the endometrium in post menopausal uterine bleeding by histopathology and transvaginal ultrasound

ABSTRACT

The result of this study revealed that transvaginal ultrasonography can be considered as a fairly simple non-invasive technique in the diagnosis of endometrial abnormalities in cases of postmenopausal bleeding with the use of high frequency transvaginal ultrasonography [6.5] M.H. the endometerium can be easily visualized and its thickness could be easily measured. Five mm. endometrial thickness is recommended as a cut off value below which endometrial abnormalities could be excluded and above it could be expected with the need of other diagnostic complementary technique as histopathologic evaluation to establish the diagnosis