The clinical importance of the microcurettage

Reviews in Gynaecological Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 58-64

  Brolmann H A M ^a   Dijkhuizen, F P H L J ^b   Mol, B W J ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abnormal uterine bleeding; Endometrial cancer; Endometrial cytology; Endometrial histology; Endometrial hyperplasia; Endometrial sampling; Microcurettage; Office gynaecology; Pipelle de Cornier; Postmenopausal bleeding

Indexed keywords

AGING; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER RISK; CANNULA; CLIMACTERIUM; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAVAGE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRECANCER; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS DISEASE;

EID: 3543073491     PISSN: 14717697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rigp.2003.12.002     Document Type: Review

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