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Before Your First: Hysteroscopy

Before Your First: Hysteroscopy

Update: 2018-01-10
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Description

Hysteroscopy = looking inside the uterus with a scope


Steps:



  1. Dilate the cervix

  2. Distend the uterus with fluid

  3. 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

Before Your First: Hysteroscopy

Jennifer Doorey, MD, MS