Appearance of the levator ani muscle subdivisions in magnetic resonance images

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1064-1069

  Margulies, Rebecca U ^a   Hsu, Yvonne ^b   Kearney, Rohna ^b   Stein, Tamara ^b   Umek, Wolfgang H ^b   DeLancey, John O L ^b  

^a Women's Hospital   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NULLIPARA; PERINEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PELVIC FLOOR; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33646767133     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000214952.28605.e8     Document Type: Article

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