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Endometrial Cancer
Risk in postmenopausal women with asymptomatic endometrial polyps is low
April 14th, 2005
The risk of developing endometrial cancer is low in postmenopausal women with asymptomatic endometrial polyps, according to a study from Israel. A. Levsagie and colleagues, Hadassah University Hospital, conducted "a retrospective study on 82 women with an incidental sonographic finding suspected to be intrauterine polyps ...to assess the histopathologic characteristics of such polyps utilizing operative hysteroscopy." They reported, "Endometrial polyps were found in 68 patients, submucousal myomas in 7, atrophic endometrium in 6, and thickened proliferative endometrium was found in 1 patient. Simple hyperplasia was found in one polyp but neither...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-04-14)
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