CT of the acute abdomen: Gynecologic etiologies

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 416-432

  Bennett, G L ^a   Harvey, W B ^a   Slywotzky, C M ^a   Birnbaum, B A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; OVARY CYST; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; TECHNIQUE; TORSION; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS PERFORATION; UTERUS RUPTURE;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADULT; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN DISEASES; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 0037940185     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-002-0052-0     Document Type: Article

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