OBJECTIVES: To report the feasibility and results of diagnostic hysteroscopy in women at risk of HNPCC. METHODS: Fifty-seven women with mismatch repair gene mutations (n = 11) or Amsterdam II criteria (n = 46) were followed-up prospectively from January 1999 to March 2005. Flexible hysteroscopy was performed once a year. The endometrium was sampled routinely. RESULTS: Of 91 attempted hysteroscopies, 10 failed. The endometrial mucosa appeared normal in 34 cases. Polyps were seen in 12 cases, atrophy in 11, hypertrophy in 10, and fibroids in 7; two hysteroscopies suspected malignancy. A micropolypoid appearance was visualized during five hysteroscopies (5/81, 6%). Of the 86 endometrial biopsy attempts, 64 were successful and showed atrophy (n = 14), proliferation (n = 12), secretion (n = 27), polyps (n = 6), simple hyperplasia without atypia (n = 3), or cancer (n = 2). Micropolypoid appearance was not associated with a specific histological pattern. Operative hysteroscopy was done in 24 cases; in two patients with apparently benign focal lesions the results showed simple hyperplasia without atypias. Five patients underwent hysterectomy (simple hyperplasia without atypias, n = 2; endometrioid adenocarcinoma, n = 2; or secretory mucosa, n = 1). This study led to diagnosis of endometrial simple hyperplasia in 6% of cases and of cancer in 3%. CONCLUSIONS: In patients at risk of HNPCC, hysteroscopy appears feasible to screen endometrial pathology. Two cancers have been diagnosed over 91 patient-years at risk. Hysteroscopy should be compared to sonography as a screening tool in women at risk of HNPCC.
OBJECTIVES: To report the feasibility and results of diagnostic hysteroscopy in women at risk of HNPCC. METHODS: Fifty-seven women with mismatch repair gene mutations (n = 11) or Amsterdam II criteria (n = 46) were followed-up prospectively from January 1999 to March 2005. Flexible hysteroscopy was performed once a year. The endometrium was sampled routinely. RESULTS: Of 91 attempted hysteroscopies, 10 failed. The endometrial mucosa appeared normal in 34 cases. Polyps were seen in 12 cases, atrophy in 11, hypertrophy in 10, and fibroids in 7; two hysteroscopies suspected malignancy. A micropolypoid appearance was visualized during five hysteroscopies (5/81, 6%). Of the 86 endometrial biopsy attempts, 64 were successful and showed atrophy (n = 14), proliferation (n = 12), secretion (n = 27), polyps (n = 6), simple hyperplasia without atypia (n = 3), or cancer (n = 2). Micropolypoid appearance was not associated with a specific histological pattern. Operative hysteroscopy was done in 24 cases; in two patients with apparently benign focal lesions the results showed simple hyperplasia without atypias. Five patients underwent hysterectomy (simple hyperplasia without atypias, n = 2; endometrioid adenocarcinoma, n = 2; or secretory mucosa, n = 1). This study led to diagnosis of endometrial simple hyperplasia in 6% of cases and of cancer in 3%. CONCLUSIONS: In patients at risk of HNPCC, hysteroscopy appears feasible to screen endometrial pathology. Two cancers have been diagnosed over 91 patient-years at risk. Hysteroscopy should be compared to sonography as a screening tool in women at risk of HNPCC.
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