The clinical significance of classical and new emerging determinants of adenomyosis.

OBJECTIVE The present study aims to analyze the diagnostic accuracy of clinical characteristics together with new emerging laboratory markers of adenomyosis. METHODS This study was a retrospective analysis of clinical and laboratory characteristics of 99 women who underwent hysterectomies with (study group) or without (control group) a diagnosis of adenomyosis, 56 and 43 patients in each group, respectively. RESULTS The women with adenomyosis were more likely to have younger age (OR = 1.14, 0.789-0.971 95% CI, P = 0.010), higher parity (OR = 1.81, 0.308-0.988 95% CI, P = 0.046), higher number of curettage (OR = 1.90, 1.189-3.041 95% CI, P = 0.007), dysmenorrhea (OR = 117.49, 2.715-5084.883 95% CI, P = 0.013) and elevated mean platelet volume (OR = 5.17, 2.054-13.028 95% CI, P = 0.000). After receiver-operating-characteristics curve analysis, using a cut-point of 8.5 fL, the preoperative mean platelet volume predicted adenomyosis with a sensitivity of 56.6% and specificity of 82.6%. CONCLUSIONS Those findings suggest gynecologists to give priority on adenomyosis when premenopausal paraous patient with a history of curettages admitted with a complaint of dysmenorrhea and elevated levels of MPV.