Posterior cul-de-sac obliteration associated with endometriosis: MR imaging evaluation

Radiology

Volumn 234, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 815-823

  Kataoka, Milliam L ^a   Togashi, Kaori ^a   Yamaoka, Toshihide ^a   Koyama, Takashi ^a   Ueda, Hiroyuki ^a   Kobayashi, Hisataka ^a   Rahman, Mahbubur ^a   Higuchi, Toshihiro ^a   Fujii, Shingo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR CUL DE SAC OBLITERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERUS; VAGINA; VAGINA DISEASE;

ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOUGLAS' POUCH; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL DISEASES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 13844256809     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2343031366     Document Type: Article

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