Imaging pelvic floor dysfunction

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 487-503

  Taylor, Stuart A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dynamic MRI; endoanal imaging; endocoil MRI; fluoroscopic proctography

Indexed keywords

ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK; COLON INTUSSUSCEPTION; DEFECOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; ECHOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECTOCELE; VAGINAL VAULT PROLAPSE;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIC FLOOR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 67651225433     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2009.06.005     Document Type: Article

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