Imaging manifestations of complications associated with uterine artery embolization

Radiographics

Volumn 25, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages

  Kitamura, Yuri ^a,b   Ascher, Susan M ^a   Cooper, Cirrelda ^a   Allison, Sandra J ^a   Jha, Reena C ^a   Flick, Pamela A ^a   Spies, James B ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEIOMYOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; UTERUS; UTERUS CANCER; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULARIZATION;

ARTERIES; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; LEIOMYOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 28044470757     PISSN: 15271323     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.25si055518     Document Type: Conference Paper

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