Inguinal endometriosis attaching to the round ligament

Australasian Radiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 91-94

  Hagiwara, Y ^a   Hatori, M ^a,c   Moriya, T ^a   Terada, Y ^a   Yaegashi, N ^a   Ehara, S ^b   Kokubun, S ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Hernia; Inguinal tumour; Magnetic resonance imaging; Round ligament

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; GADOLINIUM; GONADORELIN;

ADHESION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTECTOMY; DESMOID TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSMENORRHEA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HEMANGIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERMENORRHEA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INGUINAL CANAL; INGUINAL HERNIA; INGUINAL REGION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MENSTRUATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY; OVARY CYST; OVARY TUMOR; PALPATION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PELVIS; PERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INGUINAL CANAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ROUND LIGAMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846123684     PISSN: 00048461     EISSN: 14401673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.2006.01667.x     Document Type: Article

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