Isolated Endometrial Calcification Presenting As Primary Amenorrhoea

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Isolated endometrial calcification without any other calcification in pelvis or elsewhere in body as a cause for primary amenorrhoea is very rare. In May 2005, Duffield [1] and Eugenio Gerscovich from the University of California determined the clinical and histologic importance of small echogenic foci in endometrium/endocervix on pelvic sonography. Their result of ultrasound examination from 62 women was small hyperechoic foci in endometrium in 76 % and endocervix in 19 % or in a combination of endometrium/endocervix in 3 % or endometrium/myometrium in 2 %. The echogenic foci measured a few millimetres each, were mostly non-shadowing, and often appeared in small clusters. They commented that Ashermann’s syndrome, associated with haemorrhage, inflammation, and tissue destruction may have a causal role in endometrial calcification. …