MR-guided transvaginal cryotherapy of uterine fibroids with a horizontal open MRI system: Initial experience

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 391-397

  Dohi, Michiko ^a   Harada, Junta ^a   Mogami, Takuji ^a   Fukuda, Kunihiko ^b   Kobayashi, Shigemitsu ^a   Yasuda, Makoto ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryotherapy; Interventional MRI; Leiomyoma; Transvaginal; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CEFCAPENE PIVOXIL; CEFDITOREN; DICLOFENAC; MEPIVACAINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENTAZOCINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACCURACY; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLICATION; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; METRORRHAGIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS MYOMA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANEMIA; CRYOSURGERY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LEIOMYOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 12444269042     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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