Thin-layer cytology in endometrial diagnosis
Buccoliero, A.M.; Caldarella, A.; Noci, I.; Borri, P.; Giachi, M.; Borrani, E.; Taddei, G.L.
Pathologica 95(4): 179-184
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0031-2983 PMID: 14577201 Document Number: 565608
Our purpose was to test the liquid-based thin layer method on the endometrial cytology. One hundred sixty two consecutive patients before the hysterectomy (55 women because of various causes; 107 asymptomatic postmenopausal women because of prolapsed uterus) had the endometrial cytology (all women) and the biopsy (107 postmenopausal women prolapsed uterus affected). Cytohistologic concordance was 98%: all endometrial neoplasms and atypical hyperplasia (10 cases) and 15 of the 18 (83%) simple hyperplasias were diagnosed by thin layer endometrial cytology. In asymptomatic postmenopausal women cytology gave sufficient material for the diagnosis significantively more often than endometrial biopsy (respectively 82% and 24%; p = 0.000).