Case 18-2005: A 45-year-old woman with a painful mass in the abdomen

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 352, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 2535-2542

  Muto, Michael G ^a,c   O'Neill, Mary Jane ^b,c   Oliva, Esther ^b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM CHELATE; MULTIVITAMIN;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; ATAXIA; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; BREAST HYPERPLASIA; BREAST PAPILLOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIPLOPIA; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LENS IMPLANT; LIVER CYST; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERUS MYOMA; ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FIBROMATOSIS; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SCAR;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; CESAREAN SECTION; CICATRIX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROMATOSIS, AGGRESSIVE; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL;

EID: 22444442612     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc059013     Document Type: Article

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