Rudimentary horn pregnancy: First-trimester prerupture sonographic diagnosis and confirmation by magnetic resonance imaging

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 219-223

  Tsafrir, Avi ^a   Rojansky, Nathan ^a   Sela, Hen Yitzhak ^a   Gomori, John Moshe ^a   Nadjari, Michel ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Pregnancy; Rudimentary horn; Sonography

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DIAGNOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; SURGERY; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

GESTATION; RUDIMENTARY HORN PREGNANCY; SONOGRAPHIC EXAMINATIONS; UTERINE;

NEONATAL MONITORING;

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLACENTA ACCRETA; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS BICORNIS; UTERUS HORN; UTERUS RUPTURE; VAGINA BLEEDING; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 12744253858     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2005.24.2.219     Document Type: Article

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