PubMed · 10954145
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K D Jones, P McGurgan, C J Sutton. 2000. Second-generation endometrial ablation techniques.. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001703-200008000-00001
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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical effectiveness and safety of endometrial ablation by hysteroscopic instillation of hot saline using the Hydro-Therm-Ablator (HTA) system. METHODS: A total of 14 patients with menorrhagia, underwent the HTA procedure under general anethesia. Follow up of 9-18 months is reported. Three patients had undergone tubal ligation years before the procedure and one underwent it immediately after HTA at the same session. RESULTS: One procedure was cancelled due to technical problems, and roller-ball ablation was performed. There were no procedure related complications. A total of 11 patients reported significant reduction in bleeding, or amenorrhea, 9-18 months after the HTA procedure. One patient, although eumenorrheic after the ablation, considered the procedure a failure and requested hysterectomy. One patient with menorrhagia 3 months after the procedure, had a second HTA ablation and is now amenorrheic. CONCLUSIONS: This series of patients who underwent HTA ablation had successful reduction of menorrhagia to oligomenorrhea or amenorrhea.
This paper describes a technique to develop high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) images of microvasculature structures in curettage, hysterectomy or endometrial resection biopsies using parallel histological serial sections. Employing a labelled streptavidin-biotin-alkaline phosphatase (LSAB(+)) method and visualising by using DAB(+) with the primary antibody, mouse anti human Q-Bend-10, the images were directly digitised from a light microscope into the KS400 Universal Image Processing and Analysis software via a CCD colour camera; binary images of the structures were created and the binary images were exported into VoxBlast 3D rendering software to view still and rotating 3D images on a computer monitor. This in turn enabled hard copies of the full sequence to be printed.
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