Pelvic endometriosis: A comparison between low-field (0.2 T) and high-field (1.5 T) magnetic resonance imaging;Endometriose pélvica: Comparação entre imagens por ressonância magnética de baixo campo (O,2 T} e a/to campo (1,5 T)

Radiologia Brasileira

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 367-372

  Minaif, Karine ^a,b   Shigueoka, David Carlos ^a   Minami, Cintia Cristina Satie ^a   Sales, Danilo Moulin ^a   Ruano, José Maria Cordeiro ^a   Noguti, Alberto Sinhiti ^a   Ajzen, Sergio ^a   Szejnfeld, Jacob ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Univ Fed de Sao Paulo/Esc Paulista de Med ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adenomyosis; Diagnosis; Endometriosis; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 58849112652     PISSN: 01003984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0100-39842008000600005     Document Type: Article

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