Ultrasonography-guided transvaginal endometrial biopsy: A useful technique in patients with cervical stenosis

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 107, Issue 2 II, 2006, Pages 518-520

  Hammoud, Ahmad O ^a,b   Deppe, Gunter ^a   Elkhechen, Sahar S ^a   Johnson, Samuel ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CURETTAGE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STENOSIS; TECHNIQUE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE; AGED; BIOPSY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

AGED; BIOPSY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; UTERINE CERVICAL DISEASES;

EID: 33645454471     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006250-200602001-00033     Document Type: Article

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