Imaging the endometrium: Disease and normal variants

Radiographics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1409-1424

  Nalaboff, Kenneth M ^a   Pellerito, John S ^a   Ben Levi, Eran ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Uterus, CT, 854.1211; Uterus, diseases, 854.20, 854.30; Uterus, endometrium, 854.1478, 854.1495, 854.31, 854.324, 854.82; Uterus, hemorrhage; Uterus, MR, 854.1214; Uterus, myometrium; Uterus, US, 854.1298

Indexed keywords

SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; CHILD; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; PREMENOPAUSE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS CANCER; UTERUS DISEASE;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; PREMENOPAUSE; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS; TAMOXIFEN; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035515312     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.21.6.g01nv211409     Document Type: Article

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