title: Transvaginal ultrasonography in postmenopausal patients.
abstract: Clearly, TVS has become an important adjunctive procedure in the evaluation of suspected gynecologic disease in postmenopausal women. In our laboratory, the additive value of TVS is approximately 50% in this population. A preliminary diagnosis on TAS may be completely altered--an abnormal finding better characterized or an equivocal lesion confirmed with certainty. Further investigative studies are required to establish firmly the indications for TVS in postmenopausal women.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Arger
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008593:Menopause; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods; D014621:Vagina