Sonohysterography: A Valuable Tool in Evaluating the Female Pelvis

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 770-784

  Lindheim, Steven R ^a   Adsuar, Natalie ^b   Kushner, David M ^a   Pritts, Elizabeth A ^a   Olive, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DANBURY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; TAMOXIFEN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HYSTEROGRAPHY; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; HYSTEROSCOPY; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LEIOMYOMA; METHODOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT ABORTION; REVIEW; SCREENING; SONOHYSTEROGRAPHY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; UTERUS; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS CANCER;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OBSTETRICAL AND GYNECOLOGICAL; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; LEIOMYOMA; TAMOXIFEN; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS;

EID: 0242267533     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.OGX.0000094386.63363.D7     Document Type: Review

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