Focal depth measurements of the vaginal wall: A new method to noninvasively quantify vaginal wall thickness in the diagnosis and treatment of vaginal atrophy

Menopause

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 833-838

  Weber, Maaike A ^a   Diedrich, Chantal M ^a   Ince, Can ^a   Roovers, Jan Paul ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Focal depth; Topical estrogen therapy; Vaginal atrophy

Indexed keywords

ESTRIOL SUCCINATE; ESTROGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; GYNECOLOGICAL AND OBSTETRIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MICROCIRCULATION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PALLOR; PETECHIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; SUBEPITHELIAL MICROCIRCULATION; VAGINA ATROPHY; VAGINA PH; VAGINAL FOCAL DEPTH; VAGINAL PRURITUS; VAGINAL WALL FRIABILITY; VAGINAL WALL THICKNESS; ATROPHY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION STUDY; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PH; VAGINA; VAGINA DISEASE;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ATROPHY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OBSTETRICAL AND GYNECOLOGICAL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; VAGINA; VAGINAL DISEASES;

EID: 84969951900     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GME.0000000000000634     Document Type: Article

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