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Detection of Benign Intracavitary Lesions in Postmenopausal
Women with Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: A Prospective
Comparative Study on Outpatient Hysteroscopy and Blind Biopsy
Stefano Angioni, MD*, Alessandro Loddo, MD, Francesca Milano, MD, Bruno Piras, MD,Luigi Minerba, MD, Gian Benedetto Melis, MDFrom the Division of Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Pathophysiology of Human Reproduction, Department of Surgery, Maternal-Fetal Medicine and
Imaging (Drs. Angioni, Loddo, Milano, Piras, and Melis), and the Department of Hygiene and Public Health (Dr. Minerba), University of Cagliari,
Cagliari, Italy.
ABSTRACT Study Objective: To evaluate the specificity of blind biopsy in detecting benign intracavitary lesions as causes of
postmenopausal bleeding in comparison with directed biopsy via hysteroscopy.
Design: Prospective trial without randomization (Canadian Task Force classification II-1).
Setting: University hospital.
Patients: Three hundred nineteen postmenopausal women with abnormal uterine bleeding.
Interventions: All patients underwent both blind biopsy (Novaks curette) and directed biopsy via hysteroscopy (after at
least a week). All patients with benign intracavitary lesions underwent operative hysteroscopy to enable the removal of
polyps and intracavitary myomas or endometrial resection if required. All patients with pathologic reports of complex
hyperplasia and atypical hyperplasia (20 patients) underwent vaginal hysterectomy with bilateral adnexectomy. All patients
with histology reports of endometrial carcinoma (15 patients) underwent abdominal hysterectomy, bilateral adnexectomy,
and pelvic lymphadenectomy. Histopathologic findings from endometrial specimens obtained after operative hysteroscopy
or uterine specimens obtained after hysterectomy were used as a reference test to establish the prevalence of disease.
Measurements and Main Results: The sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and positive and negative predictive values ofblind biopsy and hysteroscopy were assessed to distinguish benign intracavitary formations such as polyps, submucous
myomas, and endometrial hyperplasia in postmenopausal patients with abnormal uterine bleeding. The level of agreement
was evaluated by use of the coefficient of concordance . Blind biopsy showed a sensitivity of 11% and a specificity of 93%,
with an accuracy of 59% in detecting endometrial polyps, a sensitivity and specificity of 13% and 100%, respectively, with
an accuracy of 98% for submucous myomas, and values of 25%, 92%, and 80%, respectively, in diagnosing hyperplasia.
On the other hand, hysteroscopy demonstrated a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 97%, with an accuracy of 91% in
diagnosing endometrial polyps, a sensitivity and specificity of 100% and 98%, respectively, with an accuracy of 99% for
submucous myomas. The coefficient of concordance (95% CI) was 0.12 for blind biopsy and 0.82 for hysteroscopy,
corresponding, respectively, to slight concordance and almost perfect agreement with final pathologic diagnosis.
Conclusions: Blind biopsy (Novaks curette) demonstrates very low sensitivity and accuracy in the diagnosis of benign
focal intracavitary lesions. Hysteroscopy is confirmed as the gold standard in the assessment of abnormal uterine bleeding
in menopause, permitting the elimination of the false-negative results of blind biopsy through direct visualization of the
uterine cavity and the performance of targeted biopsy in case of doubt. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology (2008)15, 8791 2008 AAGL. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Endometrial biopsy; Abnormal uterine bleeding; Hysteroscopy; Endometrial polyp; Myoma
The authors have no commercial, proprietary, or financial interest in the
products or companies described in this article.
Corresponding author: Stefano Angioni, MD, Division of Gynaecology,
Obstetrics and Pathophysiology of Human Reproduction, Department of
Surgery, Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Imaging, University of Cagliari, via
Ospedale, 09124, Cagliari, Italy
E-mail: [email protected]
Submitted August 7, 2007. Accepted for publication October 13, 2007.
Available at www.sciencedirect.com and www.jmig.org
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Postmenopausal bleeding represents one of the most com-
mon reasons for which women visit the gynecologist. After
menopause, all uterine bleeding is considered atypical (ab-
normal uterine bleeding [AUB]) and should be rapidly in-
vestigated to exclude endometrial carcinoma, featuring
bleeding in 95% of cases [1,2]. However, frequent causes of
uterine bleeding are represented by atrophy, dysfunctional,benign lesions and only in 7% to 10% of cases, endometrial
carcinoma [3].
Notwithstanding therefore the importance of diagnosing
malignancy, all other causes of bleeding should be detected.
Several methods have been studied to assess AUB, includ-
ing transvaginal ultrasound, outpatient hysteroscopy, hys-
terosonography, office endometrial biopsy, and dilatation
and curettage (D&C). Until fairly recently, the latter was
considered the gold standard for the assessment of AUB.
Many reports have underlined the efficacy of this procedure
in detecting endometrial carcinoma, although not in detect-
ing benign lesions [4]. Transvaginal sonography has facili-tated the evaluation of endometrial thickness and discrimi-
nation between atrophy, hyperplasia, and malignancy,
leading to an increased frequency in diagnosis of endome-
trial polyps and submucous myomas. Interesting trials
aimed at improving this method have been attempted with
hysterosonography, injecting normal saline solution into the
uterine cavity [5]. Indeed, hysteroscopy is an extremely
important tool, enhancing the possibility of correctly diag-
nosing AUB by means of a minimally invasive approach
performed without anesthetics on an outpatient basis. Diag-
nostic hysteroscopy with or without endometrial sampling
represents the new gold standard applied to exclude endo-metrial disease [6]. Hysteroscopy is more effective in as-
sessing abnormal uterine bleeding than blind techniques
such as D&C [7,8]. The use of blind biopsy in diagnosing
benign diseases in postmenopausal women is believed to be
of poor value, although to date no large prospective studies
have been reported in the literature.
Materials and Methods
From January 1992 through October 2004, at the Depart-
ment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cagliari,Italy, a series of 319 postmenopausal women with AUB
underwent both blind biopsy (Novaks curette) and diag-
nostic hysteroscopy. A woman was considered postmeno-
pausal if she reported a duration of at least 12 months of
amenorrhea after the age of 45 years, provided that amen-
orrhea had not commenced after medication or disease. All
patients underwent blind biopsy with a Novaks curette at
first evaluation, and a specimen was obtained for his-
topathologic evaluation.
After at least 1 week, all patients underwent diagnostic
hysteroscopy. All hysteroscopies were performed with a
specific procedure for gynecologic diagnosis without gen-eral or local anesthesia. Patients were placed in the lithot-
omy position and after bimanual examination, the cervix
was visualized through a speculum; a rigid hysteroscope (5
mm) was inserted into the uterine cavity without dilating the
cervix or using the tenaculum. The cavity was distended by
supplying carbon dioxide through a Hamou hysteroflator
(Karl Storz, Tuttlingen, Germany) with mean flow of 30 to
35 mL/min and with a pressure limit of 100 mm Hg. During
hysteroscopy, the uterine cavity was described according to
a standard record, which included a description of polyps,
submucous myomas, hyperplasias, endometrial cancer, and
normal/atrophic endometrium.
All patients with benign intracavitary lesions diagnosed
according to histopathologic reports obtained with a No-
vaks curette or diagnosed by outpatient hysteroscopy un-
derwent operative hysteroscopy. The latter procedure en-
abled the removal of polyps and intracavitary myomas and
endometrial resection or ablation if required (in case of
simple hyperplasia). Overall, 181 women underwent hys-teroscopic resection.
Histopathologic study findings from endometrial speci-
mens obtained after operative hysteroscopy were considered
the reference test in establishing the prevalence of specific
conditions. One hundred three patients did not show any
disease at diagnostic hysteroscopy and underwent a re-
peated endometrial biopsy.
All patients with histologic reports of complex hyperpla-
sia and atypical hyperplasia (20 patients) obtained with a
Novaks curette or hysteroscopy (7 patients) underwent
vaginal hysterectomy with bilateral adnexectomy [9]. More-
over, all patients receiving histologic reports of endometrialcarcinoma (15 patients) underwent abdominal hysterec-
tomy, bilateral adnexectomy, and pelvic lymphadenectomy
[10]. In women undergoing hysterectomy, pathologic diag-
nosis used to evaluate the accuracy of both blind biopsy and
hysteroscopy was derived from the uterine specimen.
Statistical Analysis
Students t test was used to compare demographic char-
acteristics. Sensitivity and specificity with a 95% confi-
dence interval, accuracy, and negative and positive predic-
tive values of blind biopsy and hysteroscopy indistinguishing benign intracavitary formations, such as pol-
yps, submucous myomas, and hyperplasias in patients with
AUB were assessed. The 2 and Fishers exact tests were
used to compare sensitivity of the 2 diagnostic methods in
the diagnosis of the 3 benign conditions.
The level of agreement was calculated with the index,
the difference between observed and expected agreement as
a fraction of the maximum difference [11]. The maximum
value of was 1, representing perfect agreement, and the
minimum value was 0, corresponding to an agreement only
because of chance. Values of exceeding 0.81, values
between 0.61 and 0.80, values between 0.41 and 0.60,values between 0.21 and 0.40, values between 0.01 and 0.20
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represent, respectively, almost perfect, substantial, moder-
ate, fair, and slight agreement [12].
Power calculations performed using data obtained from
published studies [13,14] estimated that only 98 patients per
group were required to observe significant differences in
sensitivity of detecting benign intracavitary lesions (primary
outcome) between the 2 diagnostic procedures, resulting ina 95% power ( 0.05 and 0.05). Data were stored
and analyzed with the use of Statistical Program for Social
Sciences release 12.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL).
Results
The group-specific demographic characteristics of the
patients are shown in Table 1. The median age of women
was 54 years (range 4688), and median time elapsed since
menopause was 10 years (133). Postmenopausal bleeding
was defined as any vaginal bleeding in a postmenopausalwoman not receiving hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
or as unscheduled bleeding in a postmenopausal woman
receiving HRT. Twenty-five of the women (8%) recruited in
this study were receiving HRT.
Final pathologic reports obtained following hystero-
scopic resection, hysterectomy, or targeted biopsies on hys-
teroscopy are reported in Table 2. We found 133 cases of
polyps (41.7%), 8 myomas (2.5%), 40 simple nonatypical
hyperplasias (12.5%), 17 complex or atypical hyperplasias
(5.3%), 15 endometrial cancers (4.7%), and 106 atrophic
endometrium (33.3%). Diagnostic hysteroscopy and blind
biopsy diagnosis are shown in the same table. In 3 cases, ahistologic diagnosis of normal endometrium was found after
hysteroscopic resection whereas diagnostic hysteroscopy
gave a diagnosis of hyperplasia. In 77 women (24.0%),
blind endometrial biopsy provided insufficient tissue for
pathologic assessment. Reports diagnosed 28 cases of pol-
yps (8.7%), 1 myoma (0.3%), 34 hyperplasias (10.6%), 15
endometrial cancers (4.7%), and 164 results of normal en-
dometrium (51.4%).
With outpatient hysteroscopy, a diagnosis was made for
all patients. We thus diagnosed 131 cases of polyps (41%),
10 myomas (3.1%), 60 hyperplasias (18.8%), 15 endome-
trial cancers (4.7%), and 103 findings of normal endome-trium (32.2%).
The results of the statistical analysis for blind biopsy
procedures are shown in Table 3. We found an accuracy of
59%, a sensitivity of 11%, a specificity of 93%, and a
positive predictive value (PPV) of 54% and a negative
predictive value (NPV) of 59% in detecting endometrial
polyps. We found an accuracy of 98%, a sensitivity of 13%,
a specificity of 100%, and a PPV of 100% and NPV of 98%
for submucous myomas. We found an accuracy of 80%, a
sensitivity of 25%, specificity of 92%, and a PPV of 41%
and NPV of 85% in diagnosing hyperplasia.
In Table 4, we showed that hysteroscopy demonstratessensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV of 89%, 93%, 90%, T
able
1
Group-specificdemographiccharacteristicso
fthepatients
Patientswithpolyps
Patientswithhyperplasia
Patientswithsubmucous
myomas
Patientswithendometrial
cancer
Pa
tientswithnormal/
atrophicendometrium
Age(years
SD)[95%
CI]
56.3
7.4
[58.961.7
]
57.1
7.9
[54.359.8
]
54.3
3.0
6[51.756.8]
65.0
1
7.4
*[55.664.5
]
59
.9
7.7
[58.561.3
]
Ageatmenopause(years
SD)[95%
CI]
51.6
4.1
[50.852.3
]
50.7
3.6
[49.451.9
]
50.6
5.2
[46.254.9]
50.8
5.7
[47.354.2
]
50
.4
4.6
[49.551.2
]
Timeelapsesincemenopause(years
SD)
[95%
CI]
8.7
8.0
1[7.210.1
]
7.7
6.6
[5.410.0
]
5.5
5.7
[3.710.2]
14.2
8.4
*[9.119.3
]
9
.7
8.3
[8.111.2
]
Parity
(
SD)[95%
CI]
2.6
7
1.4
[2.42.9
]
2.8
7
1.74[2.33.5
]
3.8
5
2.5
4[1.75.9]
2.8
1
1.4
[1.93.6
]
2.95
2.1
3[2.53.3
]
HRTtherapy(%)
8.8
0
12.5
7.6
4.8
*
p.0
1endometrialcancerversuspolyps,hyperplasia,myomas,andnormal/atrophicendo
metrium.
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and 92%, respectively, in diagnosing endometrial polyps,
with an accuracy of 91%. Hysteroscopy has sensitivity,
specificity, PPV, and NPV of 100%, 99%, 80%, and 100%,
respectively, for submucous myomas, with an accuracy of
99%. The worst result is in estimating hyperplasia, with
values of 74%, 93%, 70%, and 94%, respectively, and an
accuracy of 90%.
The 2 comparison between sensitivities of blind biopsy
and hysteroscopy in the diagnosis of polyps and hyperplasia
were 159.53 (p .001) and 27.51 (p .001). Fishers exact
test used to compare sensitivity in diagnosing myomas was
statistically significant (p .001).
The coefficients of concordance (95% CI) were 0.12
(CI: 0.050.18) for blind biopsy and 0.82 (CI: 0.770.87)
for hysteroscopy corresponding, respectively, to slight con-
cordance and almost perfect agreement with final pathology
diagnosis. values were both statistically significant (z
3.9 for blind biopsy and z 22.8 for hysteroscopy), as well
as the difference between the 2 independent values of (z
16.28).
Discussion
An endometrial sampling procedure represents the gold
standard to be applied in diagnostic evaluation of all women
presenting with AUB. The gynecologist has a variety of
tools at his/her disposal for this examination. Endometrial
biopsy and D&C are endometrial sampling procedures. The
development of equipment and techniques for office-basedendometrial biopsy challenged the need for hospital-per-
formed diagnostic D&C requiring anesthesia. Office endo-
metrial biopsy offers a number of advantages over D&C. It
can be performed with little or no cervical dilation, and
anesthesia is generally not required. Moreover, the cost is
approximately one-tenth that of a hospital D&C. Two meta-
analyses have clearly emphasized the satisfactory sensitivity
and specificity of endometrial biopsy in the diagnosis of
endometrial cancer in women with AUB [15,16]. However,
all sampling devices perform better when pathologic studyis global rather than focal. Curettage followed by blind
extraction with Randall polyp forceps improves the rate of
detection of polyps over curettage alone [17].
The aim of our study was to evaluate the sensitivity and
level of agreement of blind biopsy in detecting benign
diseases in more than 300 postmenopausal women with
AUB. Results obtained revealed how 67% of women with
postmenopausal bleeding had a pathologic endometrium.
Blind biopsy revealed an exceedingly low sensitivity and
accuracy in the diagnosis of benign intracavitary lesions and
only a slight concordance with final diagnosis. In particular,
blind biopsy revealed an extremely high number of false-negative results, frequently proving to be of scarce diagnos-
tic value because of the paucity of the sample. On the
contrary hysteroscopy showed a high sensitivity, corre-
sponding almost completely with final diagnosis. Hysteros-
copy was confirmed as the gold standard in the assessment
of AUB in menopause. This procedure facilitated elimina-
tion of false-negative results obtained at blind biopsy, al-
lowing a direct visualization of the uterine cavity and per-
forming of targeted biopsy in case of doubt. Hysteroscopy
provides for direct visualization of the endometrial cavity,
thereby allowing targeted biopsy or excision of lesions
identified during the procedure. However, application ofthis procedure requires greater skills and is more costly and
invasive than most other methods used in endometrial as-
sessment. Multiple studies have shown that hysteroscopy
may enable detection of focal lesions of the endometrial
lining missed by D&C alone [18,19]. Therefore, for women
at risk for endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial cancer,
both procedures or at least targeted biopsy should be per-
formed [20,21]. Moreover, in spite of the low risk of cancer
presented by an endometrial polyp, accurate diagnosis can
be provided only by means of biopsy. Nevertheless, several
atypical features of polyps are readily visible at hysteros-
copy, at times enhancing detection of malignant polyps[22,23]. Saline solution infusion sonography has recently
Table 4
Hysteroscopy statistical results in the diagnosis of benign pathol-
ogy
Hysteroscopy Polyps Myomas Hyperplasias
Sensitivity, % (95% CI) 89 (8293) 100 (68100) 74 (6284)
Specificity, % (95% CI) 93 (8896) 99 (98100) 93 (8995)
Accuracy, % 91 99 90PPV, % 90 80 70
NPV, % 92 100 94
NPV negative predictive value; PPV positive predictive value.
Table 2
Comparison between final histopathology reports and the diagno-
sis obtained with blind biopsies and hysteroscopy
Blind biopsy
(Novak)
No. (%)
Hysteroscopy
No. (%)
Histopathology
No. (%)
Endometrial polyps 28 (8.7) 131 (41.1) 133 (41.7)Hyperplasias 34 (10.7) 60 (18.8) 57 (17.8)
Submucous myomas 1 (0.3) 10 (3.1) 8 (2.5)
Endometrial cancers 15 (4.7) 15 (4.7) 15 (4.7)
Normal endometrium 164 (51.4) 103 (32.3) 106 (33.3)
Not diagnostic 77 (24) 0 0
Table 3
Blind biopsy statistical results in the diagnosis of benign pathol-
ogies
Blind biopsy (Novak) Polyps Myomas Hyperplasias
Sensitivity, % (95% CI) 11 (719) 13 (247) 25 (1637)
Specificity, % (95% CI) 93 (8896) 100 (98100) 92 (8794)
Accuracy, % 59 98 80
PPV, % 54 100 41
NPV, % 59 98 85
NPV negative predicative value; PPV positive predictive value.
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displayed a diagnostic efficacy equivalent to hysteroscopy
in detecting polyps and intrauterine myomas, although its
use in diagnosing endometrial hyperplasia and cancer in
postmenopausal women with AUB is not recommended,
because the latter should be submitted to histologic confir-
mation [24].
Our prospective study clearly demonstrates that focalendometrial abnormalities are frequent causes of AUB in
postmenopausal women, underlining the inappropriateness
of blind biopsy as a diagnostic approach. The routine use of
blind biopsy should be abandoned in women with post-
menopausal AUB. After transvaginal ultrasonography these
patients should be studied by means of diagnostic hysteros-
copy, with targeted oriented biopsy performed if needed.
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