Association of endometrial thickness assessed at transvaginal ultrasonography to endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women asymptomatic or with abnormal uterine bleeding;Lo spessore della rima endometriale rilevato all'ecografia transvaginale come indicatore di rischio di carcinoma endometriale in donne in menopausa asintomatiche o con perdite ematiche

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 104, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 437-442

  Ciatto, Stefano ^a   Cecchini, Silvia ^a   Gervasi, Ginetta ^a   Landini, Antonella ^a   Zappa, Marco ^a   Crocetti, Emanuele ^a  

^a CANCER RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INSTITUTE ISPO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Endometrial carcinoma; Transvaginal ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; POSTMENOPAUSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERUS BLEEDING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0036874765     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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