Histopathological Findings in Symptomatizing Patients After Supracervical Hysterectomy (HSTH)

Tanta University

Status: Completed

Conditions: CIN; Cervicitis; Cancer of Cervix

Treatments: Procedure: Cervical biopsy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04809727

HistopathSTH

Details and patient eligibility

About

Supracervical hysterectomy is widely common and had many complications either immediate or delayed. In these patients bleeding, infection, chronic pelvic pain are common. In these patients cervical biopsy was done and histopathological examinations were done to evaluate the pathology in these patients.

Full description

• Study design and settings: Cross sectional descriptive studies conducted from December 2017 till January 2021.
• Patients: 80 patients with supracervical hysterectomy recruited at Tanta University Hospital, gynecology clinics will be recruited according inclusion and exclusion criteria. Inclusion criteria include all symptomatizing patients following supracervical hysterectomy, of any age, of any complaints. The exclusion criteria were patients with total hysterectomy, hysterectomies for malignant indications, and refusal to participate.
• Methods: All patients' demographic data, history, indication of hysterectomy, duration since operation, postoperative complications and their main complaint.

Intervention: under general anesthesia cervical biopsy (4 quadrants) were taken from all patients and was sent for histopathological examinations.

Enrollment: 88 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 40+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all symptomatizing patients following supracervical hysterectomy,

Exclusion criteria

• with total hysterectomy,
• hysterectomies for malignant indications,
• refusal to participate.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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88 participants in 1 patient group

Biopsy

Experimental group

Description:

four quadrant biopsy

Treatment:

Procedure: Cervical biopsy