Pilot study prospectively evaluating the use of the measurement of preoperative sonographic endometrial thickness in postmenopausal patients with endometrial cancer

Menopause

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-30

  Eitan, Ram ^a   Saenz, Cheryl C ^a   Venkatraman, Ennapadam S ^a   Hann, Lucy ^a   Bach, Ariadne ^a   Gretz, Elissa ^a   Barakat, Richard R ^a   Chi, Dennis S ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Endometrial thickness; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PILOT PROJECTS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 13444270653     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042192-200512010-00007     Document Type: Article

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