Combination of endometrial thickness and time since menopause in predicting endometrial cancer in women with postmenopausal bleeding

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 219-224

  Bruchim, Ilan ^a,b   Biron Shental, Tal ^a,b   Altaras, Marco M ^a,b   Fishman, Ami ^a,b   Beyth, Yoram ^a,b   Tepper, Ronnie ^a   Aviram, Rami ^a  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Endometrial thickness; Menopause; Postmenopausal bleeding; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POSTMENOPAUSE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POLYPS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 2442651487     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.20020     Document Type: Article

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