MRI evaluation of myometrial invasion by endometrial carcinoma. Comparison between fast-spin-echo T2W and coronal-FMPSPGR Gadolinium-dota-enhanced sequences;Valutazione mediante Risonanza Magnetica dell'infiltrazione miometriale nel carcinoma dell'endometrio. Confronto tra sequenze fast-spin-echoT2W e sequenze FMPSPGR con Gadolinio dota nel piano para-coronale

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 199-210

  Nasi, Francesca ^a   Fiocchi, Federica ^a   Pecchi, Annarita ^a   Rivasi, Francesco ^a   Torricelli, Pietro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endometrial carcinoma; Magnetic Resonance; Staging; Uterus

Indexed keywords

GADOTERIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STATISTICS; CELL INFILTRATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UTERUS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEGLUMINE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOMETRIUM; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 27944439368     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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