Ultrasonographic detection of asymptomatic endometrial cancer in postmenopausal patients offers no prognostic advantage over symptomatic disease discovered by uterine bleeding

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 64-71

  Gerber, B ^a   Krause, A ^a   Muller H ^a   Reimer, T ^a   Kulz T ^a   Kundt, G ^a   Friese, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bleeding time; Endometrial carcinoma; Postmenopausal bleedings; Transvaginal sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING TIME; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERUS BLEEDING; VAGINA BLEEDING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0035142898     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8049(00)00356-7     Document Type: Article

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