Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Mullerian Duct Anomalies of the Uterus

Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 269-279

  Troiano, Robert N ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Female pelvis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mullerian duct anomaly uterine duplication; Paramesonephric ducts

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UTERUS; UTERUS BICORNIS; UTERUS DIDELPHYS; UTERUS HORN; UTERUS MALFORMATION;

FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULLERIAN DUCTS; UTERUS;

EID: 0242322045     PISSN: 08993459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002142-200308000-00002     Document Type: Review

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