Assessment of Pelvic Organ Descent by Use of Functional Cine-MRI: Which Reference Line Should be Used?

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-37

  Lienemann, Andreas ^a   Sprenger, Dorothée ^b   Janßen, Udo ^a   Grosch, Eva ^a   Pellengahr, Christoph ^a   Anthuber, Christoph ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Municipial Hospital Karlsruhe   (Germany)

Author keywords

ICS score; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); MRI, cine study; MRI, motion studies; Pelvic organs, MRI; Pelvic organs, prolapse; Rectum, MRI; Reference lines

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CINE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYMENAL LINE; INTERNATIONAL CONTINENCE SOCIETY SCORE; KINEMATICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS; PELVIS FLOOR; PELVIS ORGAN DESCENT; PELVIS ORGAN PROLAPSE; PUBIC BONE; PUBOCOCCYGEAL LINE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECTUM; RECTUM PROLAPSE; REFERENCE LINE; REFERENCE VALUE; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARD; TISSUE INJURY; UTERINE CERVIX;

CERVIX UTERI; COCCYX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; PELVIC FLOOR; PUBIC BONE; RECTUM; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY BLADDER; UROLOGY; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 0347020681     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.10170     Document Type: Article

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