title: The diagnostic value of evaluating the maximum velocity of blood flow in the uterine arteries of women with postmenopausal bleeding.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim was to evaluate the utility of ultrasonographic examinations, such as the Doppler technique, in diagnosing women with postmenopausal bleeding.
  
  
  METHODS
  Specifically, maximum end-diastolic velocity of blood flow (MEDV), time-averaged maximum velocity of blood flow (TAMXV) and peak systolic velocity of blood flow (PSV) were evaluated. Data were obtained and analyzed from a group of 100 female patients diagnosed and treated because of abnormal bleeding from the genitals in the Gynecological-Obstetrics Clinical Hospital of Poznan University of Medical Sciences. The following packages were used for statistic analyses: STATISTICA v 7.1 (StatSoft, Inc. 2005), StatXACT v.5.0.3, CYTEL SOFTWARE CORPORATION and Analyse-it Software v.1.68.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The parameters evaluated were highest in the carcinoma group, lower when proliferation was diagnosed and the lowest in the control group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Transvaginal ultrasonography diagnostics using the Doppler technique was found to play an important role in the diagnostic process of pathologies within the endometrium.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Regional Hospital in Kalisz, ul. Toruńska 7, 62-800 Kalisz, Poland. samulakd@wp.pl
authors.forename: Dariusz
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Samulak
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wilczak
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Englert-Golon
authors.forename: Magdalena Monika
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Michalska
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity / Q000502:physiology*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004714:Endometrial Hyperplasia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D016889:Endometrial Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D017698:Postmenopause; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color / Q000379:methods*; D055988:Uterine Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014592:Uterine Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology