Parasitic and pedunculated leiomyomas: Ultrasonographic features

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 789-794

  Yeh, Hsu Chong ^a   Kaplan, Michael ^a   Deligdisch, Liane ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY;

LEIOMYOMAS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEIOMYOMA; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SARCOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UTERUS CAVITY; VOMITING;

EID: 0033230596     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.1999.18.11.789     Document Type: Article

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