Factors influencing the detection of uterine cancer by suction curettage and endometrial brushing

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1005-1010

  Yang, Grace C H ^a,b   Wan, Livia S ^a   Del Priore, Giuseppe ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Pipelle ; Sampling studies; Tao Brush

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL TRIAL; CURETTAGE; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DEVICE; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUCTION; TUMOR NECROSIS; UTERUS CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS; VACUUM CURETTAGE;

EID: 0036930717     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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