Endometriosis: Sonographic spectrum

Ultrasound Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 273-280

  Bhatt, Shweta ^a   Kocakoc, Ercan ^b   Dogra, Vikram S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Endometriosis ultrasonography extraovarian; Hemorrhagic cyst; Mature cystic teratoma

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CORPUS LUTEUM; CYSTADENOMA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; HUMAN; OVARY CYST; OVARY TERATOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UTERUS MYOMA;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845492438     PISSN: 08948771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ruq.0000237256.41132.fb     Document Type: Review

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