Practical Approach to the Adnexal Mass

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 879-899

  Patel, Maitray D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADNEXA DISEASE; ANATOMY; ANECHOIC CYST; BENIGN TUMOR; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CORPUS LUTEUM; CYST; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; CYSTADENOMA; CYSTIC TERATOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; HUMAN; HYDROSALPINX; OVARY CYST; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PERITONEAL INCLUSION CYST; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCYST; REVIEW; TERATOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADNEXAL DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OVARIAN CYSTS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34447578743     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2006.10.016     Document Type: Review

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