Diagnosis of abnormal uterine bleeding

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 891-903

  Mohan, Shruti ^a   Page, Louise M ^a   Higham, Jenny M ^b  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cervix; dysfunctional uterine bleeding; endometrial biopsy; endometrial neoplasm; hysteroscopy; intermenstrual bleeding; leiomyoma fibroid; menorrhagia; polyp; postcoital bleeding; postmenopausal bleeding; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; THYROXINE;

ANXIETY; BREAKTHROUGH BLEEDING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLPOSCOPY; CURETTAGE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; POSTCOITAL BLEEDING; POSTMENOPAUSE BLEEDING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOM; THYROID DISEASE; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS MYOMA;

COITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENORRHAGIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 36549049277     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2007.03.013     Document Type: Review

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