Editorial: The role of transvaginal ultrasound and sonohysterography in the evaluation of postmenopausal bleeding

Menopause

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-22

  Shi, Ann ^a  

^a MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CANCER SCREENING; CURETTAGE; EDITORIAL; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; HYSTEROGRAPHY; HYSTEROSCOPY; LEIOMYOMA; POSTMENOPAUSE BLEEDING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERUS BLEEDING; VAGINA BLEEDING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; METRORRHAGIA; NOTE; POSTMENOPAUSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; METRORRHAGIA; POSTMENOPAUSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 74549181033     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3181c4f37a     Document Type: Editorial

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