Clinicopathologic Evaluation of Postmenopausal Bleeding at a Tertiary Care Center

Evaluation of postmenopausal bleeding: a cross sectional study

“…Kothapally et al, Ubeja et al observed that cervical carcinoma was the commonest malignant cause of PMB followed by endometrial carcinoma in their study. In this study endometrial carcinoma has been seen among those having ET between 4-5mm hence ET is not a good predictor of endometrial carcinoma, the same finding was also observed in a study conducted by Bebincy et al 5,26,27 In our study some patient related data were collected retrospectively with clinical questions to our women about past events and with our given sample size it is not possible to differentiate whole spectrum of genital tract malignancy as they are associated with varied biological behaviour, different demographic parameters and clinical risk factors.…”

“…Table 4 shows that there is no significant association for parity, literacy and socioeconomic status with endometrial thickness (p>0.05). 4,26 Considering socioeconomic status majority of the study subjects belong to the middle socioeconomic status (84%) and only 8% belong to lower and upper socioeconomic status each. This is consistent with the study conducted by Viswanathan et al where it observed that most of patients belonged to lower socioeconomic strata by Verma et al 3,4 In the present study majority of the women has normal BMI and only 22% of them are overweight whereas Vishwanathan et al found that majority (63.3%) of them were overweight and only 28.3% were of normal BMI.…”