Diagnostic accuracy of uterine fluid lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme activity profile and vaginal ultrasound in detecting endometrial cancer in women with postmenopausal bleeding

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 281, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 717-721

  El Behery, Manal M ^a   Huda, Mansour H ^a   Kamal, Ebtesam M ^a   Shehatta, Amaal E ^a  

^a ZAGAZIG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; LD isoenzyme; Postmenopausal bleeding; TVS

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE ISOENZYME;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERUS FLUID; VAGINA BLEEDING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 77950630139     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-009-1231-9     Document Type: Article

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