Endometrial microcalcifications detected by ultrasonography: Clinical associations, histopathology, and potential etiology

International Journal of Gynecological Pathology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-67

  Truskinovsky, Alexander M ^a   Gerscovich, Eugenio O ^b   Duffield, Curtis R ^b   Vogt, Philip J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrophic endometrium; Endometrial polyps; Endometrium; Microcalcifications; Psammoma bodies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURETTAGE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIAL DISEASE; ENDOMETRIAL MICROCALCIFICATION; ENDOMETRIOID CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; VAGINA BLEEDING; AGE; CALCINOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POLYP; POSTMENOPAUSE; UTERUS DISEASE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYPS; POSTMENOPAUSE; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 39349092345     PISSN: 02771691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/pgp.0b013e31812e95cb     Document Type: Article

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