The role of three-dimensional volume measurement in diagnosing endometrial cancer in patients with postmenopausal bleeding

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 390-395

  Yaman, Cemil ^a   Habelsberger, Alwin ^a   Tews, Gernot ^a   Pölz, Werner ^b   Ebner, Thomas ^c  

^a KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^c Landes Frauen und Kinderklinik ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound; Endometrial cancer; Endometrial volume; Postmenopausal bleeding

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURETTAGE; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; POSTMENOPAUSE BLEEDING; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND;

ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; METRORRHAGIA; POSTMENOPAUSE; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 50349103063     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2008.04.029     Document Type: Article

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