Uterine leiomyomas: MR imaging-guided focused ultrasound surgery-imaging predictors of success 1

Radiology

Volumn 249, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 187-194

  Lánä́rd, Zsuzsanna M ^a,c   McDannold, Nathan J ^a   Fennessy, Fiona M ^a   Stewart, Elizabeth A ^b   Jolesz, Ferenc A ^a   Hynynen, Kullervo ^a   Tempany, Clare M C ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING GUIDED FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; UTERUS CANCER;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 53749096686     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2491071600     Document Type: Article

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