Managing women with post-menopausal bleeding

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 125-143

  Epstein, Elisabeth ^a   Valentin, Lil ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Curettage; Endometrial biopsy; Endometrial cancer; Endometrial pathology; Endometrial polyp; Endometrium; Hydrosonography; Hysteroscopy; Malignancy; Observer variation; Post menopausal bleeding; Power Doppler; Reproducibility; Saline contrast sonohysterography; Three dimensional ultrasonography; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BLEEDING; CANCER RISK; CURETTAGE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOMETRIAL DISEASE; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPE; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; THICKNESS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; UTERUS CAVITY;

EID: 1542376182     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2003.10.001     Document Type: Review

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