The role of hysteroscopy with eye-directed biopsy in postmenopausal women with uterine bleeding and endometrial atrophy

Menopause

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 737-742

  Tinelli, Raffaele ^a   Tinelli, Francesco G ^a   Cicinelli, Ettore ^b   Malvasi, Antonio ^c   Tinelli, Andrea ^a  

^a VITO FAZZI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^c Santa Maria Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abnormal uterine bleeding; Endometrial atrophy; Hysteroscopy; Transvaginal ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOMETRIUM ATROPHY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; EYE BIOPSY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTEROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERUS BLEEDING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; UTERUS CANCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 51449098578     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e31815b644e     Document Type: Article

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