Endometrium-to-myometrium relative echogenicity coefficient. A new sonographic approach for the quantitative assessment of endometrial echogenicity

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 121-125

  Leibovitz, Zvi ^a   Degani, Shimon ^a,b   Rabia, Ron ^a   Tal, Joseph ^a   Eibchitz, Izu ^a,b   Shapiro, Israel ^a   Paltieli, Yoav ^a   Aharoni, Ariel ^a   Steinkuler, Meir ^b   Ohel, Gonen ^a  

^a BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Endometrium; Relative echogenicity coefficient; Tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERTILITY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MYOMETRIUM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS CAVITY;

ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MYOMETRIUM; OVULATION;

EID: 0031932717     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000009938     Document Type: Article

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