Two cases of pregnant women with ovarian endometrioma mimicking a malignant ovarian tumor

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 512-516

  Yoshida, Shozo ^a   Onogi, Akira ^a   Shigetomi, Hiroshi ^a   Tsuji, Yoriko ^a   Haruta, Shoji ^a   Naruse, Katsuhiko ^a   Kanayama, Seiji ^a   Noguchi, Taketoshi ^a   Sakata, Mariko ^a   Furukawa, Naoto ^a   Sado, Toshiyuki ^a   Yamada, Yoshihiko ^a   Kitanaka, Takashi ^a   Oi, Hidekazu ^a   Kobayashi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decidualization; Endometriosis; Ovarian cancer; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY TUMOR; PREGNANCY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 52949089705     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: 10970096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.20496     Document Type: Article

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