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Vacuum Aspiration An Efficient Outpatient Screening Technic for Endometrial Disease

Authors: MYRON H. LUTZ MD, PAUL B. UNDERWOOD Jr., MD, ALBERT KREUTNER MD, KAY S. MITCHELL MD

Abstract

ABSTRACTIn an effort to find a safe, efficient, and inexpensive means of ruling out the existence of a neoplastic process causing abnormal vaginal bleeding from the uterine cavity, 103 patients over 34 years of age had preoperative aspiration (Vabra aspirator) of the endometrial cavity. The tissue obtained at the time of D&C and hysterectomy was correlated with that obtained by the outpatient diagnostic procedure. In this pilot study, the aspirator was 98% accurate in evaluating high-risk women with abnormal uterine bleeding for malignant disease. In the two neoplasms missed, both women had had a recent D&C.

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