Outpatient diagnosis of endometrial cancer in women with postmenopausal bleeding
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Pathologic Findings of Diagnostic Curettage for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
ABSTRACT The Purpose of this study was determination of prevalence of various findings in pathologic reports of D&C that were done for abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) in pre/peri/postmenopausal women. Study population in this discriptive cross-sectional study was all of D&C operations that were done for AUB indication in Alzahra hospital from April 1997 until April 1998. Their pathologic rep...
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