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This is what’s called a
pipelle: a long, very thin, tube-like instrument. On all of the women who entered the
study, we did an endometrial biopsy using this pipelle. This procedure is done right in
the office and does not require anesthesia. The pipelle goes up through the cervix, you
rotate it around to collect a little bit of endometrium into the litumen, and you can use
that to see whether there is inflammation in the endometrium. We know from previous
studies that women who have laparoscopic evidence of PID, which is the opposite of gold
standard but is very unlikely to be done in the United States, are very likely to have
endometritis, the inflammation of the endometrial binding as picked up through a pipelle
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