Targeted and tailored diagnostic strategies in women with perimenopausal bleeding: Advantages of the sonohysterographic approach

Acta Biomedica de l'Ateneo Parmense

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 133-136

  Verrotti, Carla ^a   Benassi, Gianluca ^a   Caforio, Eleonora ^a   Nardelli, Giovanni Battista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abnormal uterine bleeding; Biopsy; Endometrial; Sonohysterography; Vabra

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLIMACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTEROGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENOPAUSE; MYOMA; OVARY; PELVIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SALINE INFUSION SONOHYSTEROGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPOTTING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERUS BLEEDING; VACUUM ABRASION; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; HYSTEROSCOPY; LEIOMYOMA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYP;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PERIMENOPAUSE; POLYPS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 55249096210     PISSN: 03924203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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