Transvaginal ultrasonography and uterine artery Doppler in diagnosing endometrial pathologies and carcinoma in postmenopausal bleeding

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 268, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 175-180

  Develioglu, Osman H ^a   Bilgin, Tufan ^a   Yalcin, Omer T ^b   Özalp, Sinan ^b  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Endometrial thickness; Postmenopausal bleeding; Transvaginal ultrasonography; Uterine artery Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURETTAGE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIAL DISEASE; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PULSATILE FLOW; PULSE WAVE; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; THICKNESS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS; UTERUS BLEEDING; VASCULARIZATION;

ARTERIES; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULSATILE FLOW; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERUS;

EID: 0042233528     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-002-0364-x     Document Type: Article

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