bleeding after menopause postmenopausal bleeding
Conditions
Interventions
Patients will be randomised for a subsequent diagnostic work-up with SIS and
hysteroscopy or no further diagnostic work-up. In case the patient is allocated
to no diagnostic work-up, she will be sen
Sponsors
Academisch Medisch Centrum
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients with postmenopausal bleeding and an endometrial thickness of more than 4 mm measured by transvaginal sonography
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients in whom cervical cytology or endometrial biopsy shows malignancy and patients in whom endometrial biopsy failed of cannot rule out malignancy
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Recurrence of postmenopausal bleeding. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| What is the added diagnostic informativeness of SIS in the diagnosis of endometrial polyps using hysteroscopy as the reference standard? What are the costs of TVS, saline infused sonography, hysteroscopy, as well as the costs of recurrent bleeding? | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed