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Multicenter Study
. 2020 Mar 25;56(4):147.
doi: 10.3390/medicina56040147.

Clinical and Sonographic Evaluation of Postmenopausal Bleeding (PMB) Followed by Diagnostic and/or Therapeutic Hysteroscopy and Guided Biopsy in Jordanian Hospitals

Abu-Azzam Omar  1 , Abufraijeh Seham  1 , Ahlam Mahmoud Al-Kharabsheh  1 , Emad Alshara  2 , Amer Mahmoud Sindiani  3 , Omar Hamdan  4 , Imene Ghoul  5 , Hamzeh Mohammad Alrawashdeh  6
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Multicenter Study

Clinical and Sonographic Evaluation of Postmenopausal Bleeding (PMB) Followed by Diagnostic and/or Therapeutic Hysteroscopy and Guided Biopsy in Jordanian Hospitals

Abu-Azzam Omar et al. Medicina (Kaunas). .

Abstract

Background and Objectives: The goal of this study was to evaluate the clinical sonographic evaluation of postmenopausal bleeding (PMB) followed by diagnostic and/or therapeutic hysteroscopy and guided biopsy in Jordanian hospitals. Materials and Methods: A retrospective multi-centric study was performed in hospitals in Al-Karak and Amman from 2014-2016. The study recruited 189 cases to evaluate the aetiology of postmenopausal bleeding. Atrophic endometrium was observed as a major cause of postmenopausal bleeding according to histopathology. The cases were also distributed according to parity in which nulliparous patients were observed. Results: Hysteroscopy was observed to be effective for the diagnosis of postmenopausal bleeding. Conclusion: There is a need to assess more approaches for the diagnosis of postmenopausal bleeding among women.

Keywords: bleeding; postmenopausal; sonographic evaluation; women.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest

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