Imaging in gynecology

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 881-906

  Valentin, Lil ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

diagnostic imaging; gynecology; magnetic resonance imaging; pelvis; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADENOMYOMA; ADNEXA DISEASE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; GYNECOLOGICAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; META ANALYSIS; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TERATOMA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR; UTERINE TUBE PREGNANCY; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS MYOMA;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADNEXAL DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIC PAIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34249686941     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2006.06.001     Document Type: Review

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