Risk Factors for Endometrial Hyperplasia and Cancer Among Women With Abnormal Bleeding

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 594-598

  Weber, Anne M ^a   Belinson, Jerome L ^a   Piedmonte, Marion R ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0032974026     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006250-199904000-00024     Document Type: Article

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