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Spontaneous abortions triggered by innate and acquired uterine anomalies may be less common than previous studies have suggested, said Dr. Percy Brandner of the European Training Center for Gynecologic Endoscopy in Saarbrucken, Germany, and his colleagues.
Unexpectedly, only 3 of 87 spontaneously aborting women had uterine anomalies--small, finger-shaped polyps near the tubal ostia--in a prospective study of 105 women who underwent a hysteroscopic examination before dilation and curettage.
The 87 spontaneously aborting women had an obstetric history of 143 spontaneous abortions in 208 pregnancies. None of the three women had anomalies close to the gestational sac--a contradiction to most findings reported in the literature.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Fewer miscarriages tied to intrauterine anomalies: Seen in only 3 of...