Abscess in adenomyosis mimicking a malignancy in a 54-year-old woman

Infectious Disease in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-64

  Erguvan, Rezzan ^a,b   Meydanli, Mehmet M ^a   Alkan, Alpay ^a   Edali, Mehmet N ^a   Gokce, Hasan ^a   Kafkasli, Ayşe ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Frozen section; Surgery; Transvaginal ultrasonography; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADENOMYOSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; INGUINAL REGION; LEIOMYOMA; PAIN; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SWEATING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ABSCESS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIECTOMY; PELVIC PAIN; POSTMENOPAUSE; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 0038243991     PISSN: 10647449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1064744903000085     Document Type: Article

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