Prevalence of bladder tumors in women referred with postmenopausal bleeding

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 167-169

  Abdel Fattah, M ^a,b   Barrington, J W ^a   Youssef, M ^a   Mac Dermott, J P ^a  

^a TORBAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bladder tumors; Postmenopausal bleeding; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER BLEEDING; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOSCOPY; ENDOMETRIUM CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE BLEEDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYSTOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 3242740397     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2004.04.017     Document Type: Article

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