For studies on clinical and histopathologic aspects of hysterectomized patients in the Chungnam area, 228 hysterectomized specimen, performed at private clinics, were collected at the Department of Pathology, Chungnam National University School of Med...
For studies on clinical and histopathologic aspects of hysterectomized patients in the Chungnam area, 228 hysterectomized specimen, performed at private clinics, were collected at the Department of Pathology, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, from 1973 to 1979.
The results were as follows:
1. In the type and procedure of operation of total 228 cases the highest incidence was total hysterectomy with salpingectomy and oopoorectomy, and was 71.9%(164 cases), and next was total hysterectomy, and was 19.3% (44 cases).
2. The highest age incidence was at 40th age groups, and was 52.6%/(120 cases) and next was at 30th, 25.4%(58 cases) and at 50th, 16.2%(37 cases), respectively.
3. The most frequent clinical chief complaint was genital bleeding, and was 40.4% (92 cases), and next was abdominal mass, 22.4% (51 cases), and pain or discomfort, 19.3% (44 cases), and leukorrhea, 11.4% (26 cases), respectively.
4. The most frequent pathologic lesion in the uterine cervix was nonspecific cervicitis, and was 73.0% (157 cases), and the next, nahothian cyst, 32.6% (70 cases), and squamous metaplasia, 30.7% (66 cases), respectively. The most frequent tumor in the cervix was squamous cell carcinoma, and was 14 cases (6.5%), and the next, benign tumor, 7 cases (3.3%), carcinoma in situ, 5 cases(2.3%), respectively.
The most frequent lesion in the uterus was uterine adenomyosis, and was accounted 55.6% (104 cases), and the next, leiomyoma, 26.3% (60 cases), and endometrial hyperplasia, 23.2% (53 cases), respectively.
The most frequent lesion in the salpinx and ovary was corpus luteum cyst, and was 35.1%(60 cases), and the next, follicular cyst, 21.1% (36 cases) and salpingitis isthmica nodosa, 20.5% (35 cases), respectively. The frequent tumor in the ovary was cystadenoma and fibroma, and was 6 cases (3.5%) in each, and the next, metastatic carcinoma, 3 cases (1.8%), and teratoma, 2 cases (1.2%), respectively.