Endopelvic fascia in women: Shape and relation to parietal pelvic structures

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 622-630

  Otcenasek, Michal ^a   Baca, Vaclav ^b   Krofta, Ladislav ^b   Feyereisl, Jaroslav ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR THE CARE OF MOTHER AND CHILD   (Czech Republic)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPELVIC FASCIA; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS; PELVIS FLOOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; UTERINE CERVIX; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; VAGINA;

ADULT; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIC FLOOR; VAGINA;

EID: 42449156359     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3181649e5c     Document Type: Article

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