Placental Polyp:An Unusual Hysteroscopic Finding

摘要

Placental polyps are a rare cause of abnormal uterine bleeding in a woman of childbearing age. They appear as highly vascular, pedunculated, placental or chorionic fragments, which are retained in the uterine cavity after an incomplete abortion or term pregnancy; their etiology is still unclear.The authors present the case of a 30-year-old woman, who had been submitted to termination of pregnancy (TOP) for medical reasons in December 2006 and presented with persistent metrorrhagia since then. The transvaginal ultrasound associated with saline-infusion hysterosonography revealed a heterogeneous, intracavitary mass, with over 30 mm of diameter. The patient was submitted to hysteroscopic resection. The histopathologic evaluation was placental polyp.