Abstract
Hysterectomy terminates a woman's reproductive life. Its indication should be devoid of misdiagnosis. Our objective is to determine the correlation in clinical and histopathological diagnoses and incidence of occult carcinoma in hysterectomy specimens. This was a ten-year retrospective review of hysterectomies done January 1, 1999 through December 31, 2008 at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria. There were 3,965 gynecological surgeries. Hysterectomies were 498 (12.6%), 49.8 per year or 125.6 per 1000 gynecological surgeries. Uterine fibroids (71.6%) and cervical cancer (50.0%) were respectively the commonest benign and malignant conditions.Women with carcinoma were significantly older P Key words : Hysterectomy, Specimen, Clinico-histopathology, misdiagnoses, Occult-carcinoma
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