[Corpus alienum in the uterus--diagnostic and therapeutic hysteroscopy].

The aim of the authors is to assess the potentialities and the application of hysteroscopy for diagnosis and treatment in cases of foreign body in the uterine cavity. Twenty eight women with different kinds of foreign bodies are included in the research: 17 patients with "lost" IUD in utero after failed attempts for blind extraction; 4 cases with unresorbed sutures after cesarean section; 1 case of uterine tamponade, incorporated in the uterine cesarean suture; 5 cases of residual tissue after interrupted pregnancies and unsuccessful D&C. The clinical symptoms, the hysteroscopic findings, the used equipment, the complications and the postoperative results are described. A conclusion is made about the advantages of the hysteroscopy over the "blind" extraction and, for this reason, that hysteroscopy should be the method of choice for diagnosis and treatment in case of corpus alienum in the uterus.