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Comparison of Transvaginal Sonography, Saline Infusion Sonography, and Hysteroscopy in Premenopausal Women with Abnormal Uterine Bleeding by de Vries, Laila D.; Dijkhuizen, F. Paul H. L. J.; Mol, Ben W. J.; Brlmann, Hans A. M.; Moret, Eveline; Heintz, A. Peter M. is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Purpose: Saline infusion sonography (sis) is a relatively new technique in the evaluation of abnormal uterine bleeding. we compared the diagnostic accuracy of sis with that of transvaginal sonography (tvs) in the detection of intracavitary abnormalities in premenopausal women with abnormal uterine bleeding. ## Methods: In this prospective study, consecutive premenopausal women who underwent a hysteroscopy for abnormal uterine bleeding also underwent tvs and sis. the findings at tvs and sis were compared with the hysteroscopic and histologic findings. sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratios were calculated. receiver operating characteristic curves were constructed to assess the performance of endometrial thickness measured using tvs. ## Results: Sixty-two patients were included in the study. tvs demonstrated 60% sensitivity in directly visualizing intracavitary abnormalities and 93% specificity. the likelihood ratio of the presence of an intracavitary abnormality was 8, and the likelihood ratio of the absence of an intracavitary abnormality was 0.43. defining an abnormality at tvs as direct visualization of an intracavitary abnormality or an endometrial thickness greater

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Author

de Vries, Laila D.; Dijkhuizen, F. Paul H. L. J.; Mol, Ben W. J.; Brlmann, Hans A. M.; Moret, Eveline; Heintz, A. Peter M.

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0091-2751)

Published

2000

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)