Metrorrhagia after sterilization
Nickelsen, C.; Garner, E.
Ugeskrift for Laeger 144(40): 2938-2940
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-5782 PMID: 7179564 Document Number: 424275
The frequency of hemorrhagic disturbance was calculated retrospectively among 207 sterilized women prior to and after sterilization. Significantly more women experienced metrorrhagia requiring curettage in the 7-year period after sterilization than during the 7-year period prior to it. 75 patients who were sterilized between the ages of 27-30 years were compared with nonsterilized women of the same age bracket. 6 years poststerilization significantly more women who had been sterilized had undergone curettage due to hemorrhagic disturbances than among the nonsterilized women. 15.5% of the women had hysterectomy during the observation period, almost 1/2 of which were due to these disturbances. (author's modified)