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. 2016 Jun;10(6):QC01-4.
doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2016/18173.7983. Epub 2016 Jun 1.

Clinical Study of Endometrial Polyp and Role of Diagnostic Hysteroscopy and Blind Avulsion of Polyp

Janu Mangala Kanthi  1 , Chithra Remadevi  1 , Sudha Sumathy  2 , Deepti Sharma  3 , Sarala Sreedhar  4 , Amrutha Jose  5
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Clinical Study of Endometrial Polyp and Role of Diagnostic Hysteroscopy and Blind Avulsion of Polyp

Janu Mangala Kanthi et al. J Clin Diagn Res. 2016 Jun.

Abstract

Introduction: Endometrial polyp is one of the common causes of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (AUB) in the reproductive age group as well as postmenopausal age group.

Aim: To study the clinical features of endometrial polyp and the safety and feasibility of blind polypectomy following diagnostic hysteroscopy.

Materials and methods: Total of 256 women who were diagnosed to have endometrial polyp by transvaginal ultrasound and underwent diagnostic hysteroscopy and blind polypectomy by simple avulsion in the period of January 2008 to December 2014 were included in our study. Polyp was confirmed by the histopathology.

Results: The prevalence of polyp among women who underwent diagnostic hysteroscopy and blind polypectomy was more common in the age group of 40-49years. Polyps manifested as AUB in 45.6% of our study population. The mean size of the polyp was not significantly different between premenopausal and postmenopausal women and single and multiple polyps. Histopathological study of the polyp showed two malignant polyps in our study population. Premalignant lesions i.e., endometrial hyperplasia without atypia and with atypia was found in 33 women. There was one uterine perforation, one cervical tear; one false passage and one patient had mild bleeding after the procedure. In our study, in the mean follow-up period of 37.57±28.12 months, 3.9% (7 women) had recurrence. In the follow-up period of 16.56±18.96 months, 78.9% women didn't have recurrence.

Conclusion: Diagnostic hysteroscopy and blind polypectomy has low complication rate and recurrence rate and technically feasible for the practicing gynaecologists which don't need much training and is cost-effective also.

Keywords: Abnormal uterine bleeding; Hysteroscopic polypectomy; Polyp with premalignant change; Recurrence of endometrial polyp.

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