Endometrial Ablation as an Alternative to Hysterectomy

In the United States, as many as two million women (ie, 22%) each year will consult a physician about menorrhagia (ie, excessive menstrual bleeding). Seven hundred thousand hysterectomies are performed in the United States each year for symptomatic menorrhagia. The procedure cost, risk, and complications, combined with the fact that a large number of posthysterectomy specimens show no abnormality,…