The clinical symptoms of CSD are prolonged menstrual periods, which often last more than 7 d or even half a month. This not only causes great psychological burden to patients, but also significantly reduces the quality of life. With the opening of China's three-child policy, the rate of cesarean section is increasing year by year, and the number of cases of prolonged menstruation due to CSD is increasing. In recent years, many scholars have done a lot of clinical research on the application of Chinese medicine for the treatment of prolonged menstruation due to CSD, and have achieved more satisfactory results.

Yue Zhong, Xia Liu, Hongli Zhu, Xiaoping Cui. Current research on Chinese and Western medicine treatment of prolonged menstruation due to uterine scar diverticulum. International Journal of Frontiers in Medicine (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 4: 22-27. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFM.2023.050405.

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