Clinical presentation and investigation: The “One-stop” clinic, endometrial sampling, hysteroscopy, vaginal ultrasound

Uterine Cancer

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 91-105

  Lee, Christopher ^a   Jurkovic, Davor ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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