Performance of office hysteroscopy and endometrial biopsy for detecting endometrial disease in women at risk of human non-polyposis colon cancer: A prospective study

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1326-1331

  Lecuru F ^a,b   Le Frere Belda M A ^a,b   Bats, A S ^a,b   Tulpin, L ^a,b   Metzger, U ^a,b   Olschwang, S ^c   Laurent Puig, P ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c INSTITUT PAOLI CALMETTES   (France)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; HNPCC; Hysteroscopy; Screening

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MSH2;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COLON CANCER; COLON POLYPOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOMETRIUM ATROPHY; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTROPHY; HYSTEROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPS; ADULT; BIOPSY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 55949125912     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1438.2007.01183.x     Document Type: Article

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