Transvaginal ultrasonography and endometrial cytology as a diagnostic schema for endometrial cancer

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 149-154

  Minagawa, Yukihisa ^a,b   Sato, Shinya ^a   Ito, Masayuki ^a   Onohara, Yoshimasa ^a   Nakamoto, Shu ^a   Kigawa, Junzo ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Endometrial cytology; Transvaginal ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM CYTOLOGY; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TUMOR BIOPSY; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 17844378748     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000083089     Document Type: Article

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