Abdominal wall endometriosis: Clinical presentation and imaging features with emphasis on sonography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 616-620

  Hensen, Jan Hein J ^a   Van Breda Vriesman, Adriaan C ^b   Puylaert, Julien B C M ^a  

^a MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^b RIJNLAND HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abdominal wall; Cesarean delivery; Endometriosis; Soft tissue neoplasms; Women's imaging

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; APPARATUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN SCAR; SYMPTOM; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 33645834316     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1619     Document Type: Review

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