Abstract

Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics of endometrial carcinoma in young women,especially the normal weight women.Methods Seventy and five cases of endometrial carcinoma aged ≤ 40 years were treated in Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital affiliated to Fudan University from January 2008 to December 2011.Among them,there are 68 cases of normal weight and obesity,who were divided into normal weight group (group A,32 cases) and obesity group(group B,36 cases) for comparisons and analysis.Results About 81.2% of the patients were menstrual disorders in group A and 83.3% in group B(P =0.822);The merge infertility accounted for 31.2% and 19.4% (P =0.279) respectively,and the oligomenorrhea accounted for 21.9% and 30.6% (P =0.418) respectively,the patients combined diabetes,high blood pressure or PCOS were 6.2% and 44.4% (P =0.001) respectively.According to International Federation of Gynecology and Ostetrics(FIGO) surgery-pathologic stage,two groups of stage Ⅰ were 68.8% and 83.3% (P =0.157),respectively.Stage Ⅱ-Ⅳ were 31.2% and 16.7% (P =0.157),respectively.Pathological type:8 (25.0%) cases were high-risk of pathology classification in group A,and Five cases (13.8%) in group B,others were endometrial adenocarcinoma.Operations were the main treatments.Five cases were progestogen therapied.After treatments,2 cases were full term pregnant,1 case is now pregnant.Conclusion The clinical manifestations of endometrial carcinoma in young women were mainly menstrual disorders.There were higher percentage infertilities and lower percentage diabetes,high blood pressure and PCOS in normal body weight patients.In normal body weight patients,pathology classification for middle-late of high-risk pattern was increasing.For patients in early stage,if have birth requirement,could be treated with the trial progesterone conservative. Key words: Endometrial carcinoma; Young women; Pharmacotherapy

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