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Endometrial biopsies are used to diagnose irregular bleeding, to check for cancer of the uterus and to help infertility patients be diagnosed with luteal phase defect. Women who are tying to get pregnant are often offered several tests of their fertility, endometrial biopsy would only be one of the tests. One test is to check your for ovulation, one is to test to see if your fallopian tubes are open, and other test checks to see if your partner is fertile as well (At Women's Health Practice call to schedule affordable sperm counts). The lining of the uterus needs to be thick and lush for an embryo to implant. the lining is shed each month to allow for a newly constructed home for an embryo to implant. The process by which this develops is much like the orderly progression of a flower unfolding or a fruit forming on a tree. It occurs step by step. For a long time we have felt that poor progesterone in the latter half of the cycle made for a specific problem that would ...

It’s not so surprising when you think about it. There is more information on your pap smears than is actually reported out. In one case cells seen in younger patients are considered so normal, they just aren’t reported, but they are after 40. It’s one of the reasons you may have to learn about a pap test problem you may have never heard of! Women over the age of 40 may receive an unexpected phone call regarding their pap smear: they are told they have a test that isn’t a sign of cervical cancer, but that they need to come and discuss the finding of uterine lining cells, or endometrial cells, on their pap smear. They are likely to be told they need additional testing, and that occasionally this may mean a cancer or pre-cancer of the uterus itself. Women who have had menstrual periods know that they do shed the actual lining tissue at the time of the menstrual bleeding. A little known fact is that over 1/10 pap smears have these lining cells present. Women will shed these cells a bi...

But there is another test that was used a lot in the past, that is a biopsy of the lining of the uterus, or the Endometrial Biopsy. Endometrial biopsies are used to diagnose irregular bleeding, to check for cancer of the uterus and to help infertility patients. Women who are tying to get pregnant are often offered several tests of their fertility, endometrial biopsy would only be one of the tests. One test is to check your for ovulation, one is to test to see if your fallopian tubes are open, and other test checks to see if your partner is fertile as well (At Women's Health Practice call to schedule affordable sperm counts). The lining of the uterus needs to be thick and lush for an embryo to implant. the lining is shed each month to allow for a newly constructed home for an embryo to implant. The process by which this develops is much like the orderly progression of a flower unfolding or a fruit forming on a tree. It occurs step by step. For a long time we have felt that poor ...