Bizarre sonographic appearance of an adenomyoma and its presentation

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 599-602

  Batzer, Frances R ^a,c   Hansen, Leslie ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; DIAGNOSIS; GYNECOLOGY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; SURGERY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADENOMYOMA; DYSFUNCTIONAL UTERINE BLEEDING; SONOGRAPHIC APPEARANCE; TRANSVAGINAL SONOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHIC PATTERN;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADENOMYOMA; ADENOMYOSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERUS BLEEDING;

EID: 0030221808     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.1996.15.8.599     Document Type: Article

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