Narrow-Band Imaging in Diagnosis of Endometrial Cancer and Hyperplasia: A New Option?

Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 620-625

  Surico, Daniela ^a   Vigone, Alessandro ^a   Bonvini, Daniele ^b   Tinelli, Raffaele ^c   Leo, Livio ^a   Surico, Nicola ^a  

^a Advanced Gynecological Oncology Centre   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^c Sant'Anna Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Endometrial hyperplasia; Hysteroscopy; Narrow band imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTEROSCOPY; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NARROW BAND IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERUS BLEEDING; WHITE LIGHT ENDOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77955871144     PISSN: 15534650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2009.10.014     Document Type: Article

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