CT, MRI, PET, PET/CT, and Ultrasound in the Evaluation of Obstetric and Gynecologic Patients

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 361-390

  Gjelsteen, Andrew C ^a   Ching, Brian H ^a   Meyermann, Mark W ^a   Prager, Douglas A ^a   Murphy, Thomas F ^a   Berkey, Bryan D ^a   Mitchell, Lex A ^a  

^a TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; TUMOR MARKER;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABSCESS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLADDER INJURY; BLADDER PERFORATION; BLEEDING; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FISTULA; FLUID RETENTION; FLUOROSCOPY; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSTETRIC PATIENT; OVARY CANCER; PELVIC DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETAINED INSTRUMENT; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; URETER INJURY; URETER OBSTRUCTION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 41149122268     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2008.01.005     Document Type: Review

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