Quantification of levator ani cross-sectional area differences between women with and those without prolapse

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 879-883

  Hsu, Yvonne ^a,b   Chen, Luyun ^a   Huebner, Markus ^a   Ashton Miller, James A ^a   DeLancey, John O L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Women's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; MUSCLE DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC FLOOR; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 33749327514     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000233153.75175.34     Document Type: Article

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