Clinical Failure after Uterine Artery Embolization: Evaluation of Patient and MR Imaging Characteristics

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 662-667

  Toor, Sundeep S ^a   Tan, Kongteng T ^a   Simons, Martin E ^a   Rajan, Dheeraj K ^a   Beecroft, J Robert ^a   Hayeems, Eran ^a   Sniderman, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADULT; ARTERIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS;

EID: 42649103999     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2007.12.454     Document Type: Article

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