Management of postmenopausal women with vaginal bleeding when the endometrium can not be visualized

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 686-691

  Burbos, Nikolaos ^a   Musonda, Patrick ^b   Crocker, Simon G ^a   Morris, Edward P ^a   Nieto, Joaquin J ^a   Duncan, Timothy J ^a  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

endometrial cancer; endometrial thickness; endometrium; Postmenopausal bleeding; transvaginal ultrasound; uterus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; ENDOMETRIUM THICKNESS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE BLEEDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; THICKNESS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; VAGINA BLEEDING;

AGED; CARCINOMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYPS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 84862106471     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: 16000412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0412.2012.01407.x     Document Type: Article

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