Efficiency of saline contrast hysterosonography for evaluating the uterine cavity;Doelmatigheid van watercontrastechografie ter beoordeling van het cavum uteri

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 147, Issue 32, 2003, Pages 1539-1544

  De Kroon, C D ^a   Jansen, F W ^a   Trimbos, J B M Z ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TAMOXIFEN;

DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; POLYP; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS CAVITY; UTERUS MALFORMATION; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS SYNECHIA; VAGINA BLEEDING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0041330133     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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