What is curettage?

Nowadays, young people are becoming more and more open-minded, and premarital sex is very common. However, many women do not pay attention to contraception, so accidental pregnancy is inevitable. After an unexpected pregnancy, many people will choose artificial abortion. Curettage and curettage is a common abortion surgery. So what is curettage? In this article, we will introduce you to some common knowledge about curettage and curettage.

Curettage and dilation is a surgery that many women choose when they think they are pregnant. This surgery has helped many women solve the troubles of unexpected pregnancy, but there are still many women who don’t know much about curettage and dilation. Next, we will popularize the knowledge of dilation and curettage so that you can have a clear understanding of this common minor gynecological operation and perform artificial abortion safely and smoothly.

1. What is curettage?

Surgeries to scrape the endometrium or uterine cavity contents are mainly divided into two categories: therapeutic curettage and diagnostic curettage.

2. Diagnostic curettage

We divide diagnostic curettage into general curettage and segmented curettage. It is suitable for patients with endocrine abnormalities who need to understand changes in the endometrium and its response to sex hormones, the presence or absence of ovulation, the presence or absence of tuberculosis, etc. It can diagnose cervical cancer, endometrial cancer and other uterine malignancies. General diagnostic curettage is suitable for endocrine abnormalities, which require understanding of endometrial changes and responses to sex hormones, the presence or absence of ovulation, the presence or absence of tuberculosis, etc. Segmented diagnostic curettage refers to the operation of first scraping the cervical canal and then the uterine cavity. The scrapings are sent for pathological examination separately. It is suitable for diagnosing cervical cancer, endometrial cancer and other uterine malignancies, and can understand the scope of cancer.

3. Therapeutic curettage

Many women are told that they need therapeutic curettage. Do you know what symptoms therapeutic curettage is suitable for? For those who want to terminate the pregnancy in early pregnancy, suction curettage is used within 3 months of pregnancy, and forceps curettage is used to remove residual materials in the uterine cavity after 3 months of pregnancy and after induced abortion; therapeutic curettage is required for those who need to empty the uterine cavity due to inevitable miscarriage, incomplete miscarriage, missed miscarriage, retained placenta, hydatidiform mole, etc. Therapeutic curettage can be divided into suction curettage and forceps curettage. Suction curettage is the use of a negative pressure suction tube to suck out the contents of the uterine cavity, while forceps curettage is the use of an oval forceps to remove the contents of the uterine cavity, followed by curettage. The indications for therapeutic curettage include: those who want to terminate the pregnancy in early pregnancy, suction curettage within 3 months of pregnancy, forceps curettage to remove residual materials in the uterine cavity after 3 months and after induced abortion; those who need to empty the uterine cavity for incomplete abortion, inevitable abortion, missed abortion, retained placenta, hydatidiform mole, etc. Contraindications include acute genital tract and pelvic inflammation, trichomoniasis and candidal vaginitis, and patients with severe medical diseases who cannot tolerate surgery. Note: Understand the indications and choose the appropriate time and procedure for different diseases. The doctor must be skilled in the technique to avoid various unnecessary complications, such as heavy bleeding, uterine perforation, incomplete curettage, postoperative uterine adhesions, infection, etc.

After reading the introduction in this article, everyone should have some understanding of the operation of curettage. Experts would like to remind women that although medicine is relatively advanced now, curettage will still affect the health of patients to some extent, so everyone should still do a good job of contraception and avoid curettage in life.