Serum- und Urinmarker als diagnostische Tests für Endometriose

Translated title of the contribution: Serum and urine markers as diagnostic tests for endometriosis

A. Agic, K. Diedrich, D. Hornung

Abstract

A diagnostic test for endometriosis should exhibit high sensitivity and specificity as well as positive and negative predictive values. The test should be reproducible and have low costs. In addition patients would prefer a non-invasive and painless test. By means of this test it should be possible to achieve the first diagnosis of endometriosis as well as a measure of the success of a medicinal therapy of endometriosis. This would also be very important for the monitoring of clinical studies with new drugs. In this review article the most promising studies on single or combined tests on blood and urine samples are presented and the sensitivity and specificity are compared.
Translated title of the contributionSerum and urine markers as diagnostic tests for endometriosis
Original languageGerman
JournalGynakologe
Volume43
Issue number11
Pages (from-to)890-894
Number of pages5
ISSN0017-5994
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11.2010

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