Age-related differential diagnosis of vaginal bleeding in postmenopausal women: A series of 3047 symptomatic postmenopausal women

Menopause International

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-8

  Burbos, Nikolaos ^a   Giarenis, Ilias ^a   Giamougiannis, Panagiotis ^a   Morris, Edward ^a   Nieto, joaquin J ^a   Musonda, Patrick ^b   Shiner, Alice M ^c  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c Lawson Road Surgery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

endometrial cancer; Incidence; postmenopausal bleeding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COUNSELING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM; VAGINA BLEEDING;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 77951736927     PISSN: 17540453     EISSN: 17540461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/mi.2010.010005     Document Type: Article

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