Risks and usefulness of sonohysterography in patients with endometrial carcinoma

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 362-368

  Dessole, Salvatore ^a,b   Rubattu, Giovanni ^a   Farina, Mario ^a   Capobianco, Giampiero ^a   Cherchi, Pier Luigi ^a   Tanda, Francesco ^a   Gallo, Omar ^a   Ambrosini, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b Department of Pharmacology Gynecology and Obstetrics ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Endometrial carcinoma; Sonohysterography; Staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTEROGRAPHY; LAPAROTOMY; MYOMETRIUM; PATHOLOGIST; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; UTERINE TUBE;

AGED; BODY FLUIDS; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOMETRIUM; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UTERUS;

EID: 31844438987     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2005.08.036     Document Type: Article

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