Pregnancy and live birth after focused ultrasound surgery for symptomatic focal adenomyosis: A case report

Human Reproduction

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1255-1259

  Rabinovici, J ^a,b   Inbar, Y ^b,c   Eylon, S C ^a,b   Schiff, E ^a,b   Hananel, A ^d   Freundlich, D ^d  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c FUS Treatment Center   (Israel)

^d INSIGHTEC LTD   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adenomyosis; Focused ultrasound surgery; Leiomyoma; Pregnancy; Uterine tumours

Indexed keywords

ADENOMYOSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILDBIRTH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SURGERY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MENORRHAGIA AND METRORRHAGIA; MYOMECTOMY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; SAFETY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERUS DISEASE; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS SURGERY; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 33645837235     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dei458     Document Type: Article

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