Before Your First: Hysteroscopy

Update: 2018-01-10

Description

Hysteroscopy = looking inside the uterus with a scope

Steps:

Dilate the cervix

Distend the uterus with fluid

Look around, identify pathology, identify tubal ostia, remove pathology if using an operative scope or Myosure or another resectoscope.

Feared complication: Hyponatremia from excessive hypotonic fluid absorption.

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Before Your First: Hysteroscopy

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Before Your First: Hysteroscopy

Jennifer Doorey, MD, MS

Before Your First: Hysteroscopy