A prospective comparison of transvaginal ultrasound, saline infusion sonohysterography, and diagnostic hysteroscopy in the evaluation of endometrial pathology

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2720-2725

  Grimbizis, Grigoris F ^a   Tsolakidis, Dimitrios ^a   Mikos, Themistoklis ^a   Anagnostou, Eftychia ^a   Asimakopoulos, Efstratios ^a   Stamatopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Tarlatzis, Basil C ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Diagnostic hysteroscopy; endometrial cancer; endometrial hyperplasia; endometrial pathology; endometrial polyp; myoma; saline infusion sonohysterography; structural uterine anomalies; transvaginal ultrasound

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDOMETRIAL DISEASE; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HYSTEROGRAPHY; HYSTEROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENORRHAGIA; OUTPATIENT; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; HYSTEROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERUS; VAGINA;

EID: 78650227578     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.03.047     Document Type: Article

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