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. 2023 Jun 23;12(13):4232.
doi: 10.3390/jcm12134232.

Hysteroscopic Findings and Operative Treatment: All at Once?

Valentina D'Urso  1 , Ferdinando Antonio Gulino  2 , Giosuè Giordano Incognito  1 , Monia Cimino  1 , Valentina Dilisi  1 , Alessandra Di Stefano  1 , Marianna Gulisano  1 , Francesco Cannone  2 , Stella Capriglione  3 , Marco Palumbo  1
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Hysteroscopic Findings and Operative Treatment: All at Once?

Valentina D'Urso et al. J Clin Med. .

Abstract

Hysteroscopy is considered not only a diagnostic instrument but also a therapeutic tool for many uterine pathologies. In the early 1990s, advances in technology and techniques made hysteroscopy less painful and invasive, allowing to increase in the number of gynecological procedures performed in an ambulatory setting without significant patient discomfort and with potentially significant cost savings. This is the so-called "office hysteroscopy" or "see-and-treat hysteroscopy", whose spread has permitted the decrease of the number of procedures performed in the operating room with the benefit of obviating the need for anesthesia and dilatation of the cervical canal.

Keywords: endometrial polyp; hysteroscopy; intrauterine adhesion; metroplasty; myoma.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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