Endometrial Thickness as Measured by Transvaginal Ultrasound and the Corresponding Histopathologic Diagnosis in Women With Postmenopausal Bleeding

Endometrial thickness as measured by transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS) is being increasingly used as a first-line method to evaluate patients with vaginal bleeding. Our study aims to examine correlation between the histopathologic diagnosis and the results of TVUS and find a threshold that could reliably exclude carcinoma. We included women, age 55 years and above, who presented with postmenopausal bleeding and had a TVUS within 30 days of their endometrial biopsy. Total of 304 patients met our criteria and were divided into 4 groups. Patients in group A (n=198) had benign/atrophic endometrium, group B (n=44) had polyps, group C (n=30) had hyperplasia, and group D (n=32) had carcinoma. The endometrial thickness obtained by TVUS was compared with the histopathologic finding of the endometrial ...

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