Discussion Abnormal uterine bleeding affects up to 30% of women of reproductive age.
Patients usually present frst to their family physicians, who can do most of the diagnostic …

The introduction of intrauterine endoscopy has allowed clinicians to evaluate an area of the
body that was previously accessible only by the procedure of blind dilation and curettage …

Seventy patients with abnormal vaginal bleeding were examined with a Storz hysteroscope.
The examination took an average of only 5 min. Sixty patients had the examination under …

Abnormal uterine bleeding is the most common indication for dilation and curettage.
Because of the pitfalls involved with this blind procedure, hysteroscopy was added for the …

Thirty-four patients, with a history of persistent abnormal uterine bleeding and dilatation and
curettage or suction curettage performed within the previous year, were evaluated by office …

Ninety six cases of abnormal uterine bleeding were evaluated by both panoramic
hysteroscopy and dilatation and curettage. The indications for hysteroscopy included …

Although the diagnostic accuracy of hysteroscopy is high, it should be considered a
diagnostic technique and used together with endometrial biopsy. Hysteroscopy is useful for …

Traditional British teaching suggests that women with abnormal bleeding pattcrns should be
investigated by dilatation of the cervix and curettage of the endometrial cavity under …

Hysteroscopic evaluation of 187 patients with abnormal uterine bleeding is reviewed. One
hundred fifty-one patients had recent tissue sampling by a blind method. The hysteroscope …

EDITORIAL COMMENT: There is always the problem of when to perform curet‐tage in the
premenopausal patient with irregular or heavy bleeding, when the clinical findings and …