Figure 2.

Indications for hysterectomy and findings by pathology. The primary indications for hysterectomy were menorrhagia, adenomyosis, pain, myoma, or endometrial hyperplasia. The main pathology findings (polyp, myoma, adenomyosis, no clear pathology) were shown by colours and plotted against each column. Both were correlated poorly. For example, when the primary indication for hysterectomy was adenomyosis, the histological finding was adenomyosis in 27% (red colour). These data illustrate that the indication for hysterectomy and the pathology are essentially multivariate since most women have multiple symptoms and histological observations. The presence of isthmoceles could be another variable.

* One case had been diagnosed as large subserous myoma preoperatively (by US), but the histology showed no pathology in the uterus. It was an ovarian fibroma.