A thin and regular endometrium on ultrasound is very unlikely in patients with endometrial malignancy

To evaluate the clinical and sonographic features in patients with endometrial malignancy in whom endometrial thickness on ultrasound examination had been recorded in our database to be < 5 mm.

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