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Clinicopathological and ultrasound features of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women: a retrospective study in a single institute in South Korea
INTRODUCTION: endometrial cancer is the most common type of cancer in the female genital tract. Most patients are diagnosed during postmenopausal periods. This study aimed to investigate the demographic characteristics as well as cutoff value of endometrial thickness and ultrasound characteristics o...
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The African Field Epidemiology Network
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8052621/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33912318 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.148.28101 |
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author | Jo, Hyen Chul Baek, Jong Chul Lee, Seon Mi Park, Ji Eun Cho, In Ae Sung, Joo Hyun |
author_facet | Jo, Hyen Chul Baek, Jong Chul Lee, Seon Mi Park, Ji Eun Cho, In Ae Sung, Joo Hyun |
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description | INTRODUCTION: endometrial cancer is the most common type of cancer in the female genital tract. Most patients are diagnosed during postmenopausal periods. This study aimed to investigate the demographic characteristics as well as cutoff value of endometrial thickness and ultrasound characteristics of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal patients. METHODS: we retrospectively analyzed 244 postmenopausal women who underwent endometrial sampling from February 2016 to December 2019. Information of patients was obtained through medical records. The patients were divided into two groups according to histopathological results. Group A included patients with endometrial cancer and group B included patients with non-malignant lesions. Data were summarized based on demographic and ultrasound characteristics. RESULTS: hypertension and history of endometrial hyperplasia were associated with the incidence of endometrial cancer in this study. Endometrial cancer was diagnosed in all ranges when the endometrial thickness was ≥5 mm. Endometrial fluid collection, with increased endometrial thickness, was a risk factor associated with endometrial cancer. CONCLUSION: regardless of symptoms and risk factors, endometrial histological confirmation in postmenopausal women should be conducted immediately if endometrial abnormalities such as an endometrial thickness ≥5 mm or endometrial fluid collection are detected by transvaginal ultrasound. |
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spelling | pubmed-80526212021-04-27 Clinicopathological and ultrasound features of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women: a retrospective study in a single institute in South Korea Jo, Hyen Chul Baek, Jong Chul Lee, Seon Mi Park, Ji Eun Cho, In Ae Sung, Joo Hyun Pan Afr Med J Research INTRODUCTION: endometrial cancer is the most common type of cancer in the female genital tract. Most patients are diagnosed during postmenopausal periods. This study aimed to investigate the demographic characteristics as well as cutoff value of endometrial thickness and ultrasound characteristics of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal patients. METHODS: we retrospectively analyzed 244 postmenopausal women who underwent endometrial sampling from February 2016 to December 2019. Information of patients was obtained through medical records. The patients were divided into two groups according to histopathological results. Group A included patients with endometrial cancer and group B included patients with non-malignant lesions. Data were summarized based on demographic and ultrasound characteristics. RESULTS: hypertension and history of endometrial hyperplasia were associated with the incidence of endometrial cancer in this study. Endometrial cancer was diagnosed in all ranges when the endometrial thickness was ≥5 mm. Endometrial fluid collection, with increased endometrial thickness, was a risk factor associated with endometrial cancer. CONCLUSION: regardless of symptoms and risk factors, endometrial histological confirmation in postmenopausal women should be conducted immediately if endometrial abnormalities such as an endometrial thickness ≥5 mm or endometrial fluid collection are detected by transvaginal ultrasound. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8052621/ /pubmed/33912318 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.148.28101 Text en Copyright: Hyen Chul Jo et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Jo, Hyen Chul Baek, Jong Chul Lee, Seon Mi Park, Ji Eun Cho, In Ae Sung, Joo Hyun Clinicopathological and ultrasound features of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women: a retrospective study in a single institute in South Korea |
title | Clinicopathological and ultrasound features of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women: a retrospective study in a single institute in South Korea |
title_full | Clinicopathological and ultrasound features of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women: a retrospective study in a single institute in South Korea |
title_fullStr | Clinicopathological and ultrasound features of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women: a retrospective study in a single institute in South Korea |
title_full_unstemmed | Clinicopathological and ultrasound features of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women: a retrospective study in a single institute in South Korea |
title_short | Clinicopathological and ultrasound features of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women: a retrospective study in a single institute in South Korea |
title_sort | clinicopathological and ultrasound features of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women: a retrospective study in a single institute in south korea |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8052621/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33912318 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.148.28101 |
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