Management of endometrial polyps: A clinical review

Reviews in Gynaecological Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-6

  Sharma, Malini ^a   Taylor, Alexander ^a   Magos, Adam ^a  

^a Minimally Invasive Therapy Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hysteroscopic resection; Hysteroscopy; Polyps; Tamoxifen

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MEGESTROL ACETATE; TAMOXIFEN;

ADENOMYOSIS; AGING; AMENORRHEA; BREAKTHROUGH BLEEDING; BREAST CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIAL DISEASE; ENDOMETRIUM ATROPHY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYSTEROGRAPHY; HYSTEROSCOPY; INCIDENCE; LONG TERM CARE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; METRORRHAGIA; OBESITY; POLYP; POLYPECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRECANCER; PREGNANCY RATE; PREMENOPAUSE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS CAVITY; UTERUS DISEASE; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS SURGERY;

EID: 3543055797     PISSN: 14717697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rigp.2003.11.004     Document Type: Article

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