Huge uterine leiomyoma with adenomyotic cysts mimicking uterine sarcoma on MR imaging

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 127-129

  Yamashiro, Tsuneo ^a   Gibo, Masaki ^a   Utsunomiya, Takashi ^b   Murayama, Sadayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenomyotic cyst; Leiomyoma; MRI; Myxoid degeneration; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL MASS; ADENOMYOMA; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYSTADENOMA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSCOPY; LABORATORY TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TUMOR BLEEDING; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS SARCOMA; CYST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; LEIOMYOMA; SARCOMA; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; CYSTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SARCOMA; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34347257463     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: 18625274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-006-0106-2     Document Type: Article

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