Retained products of conception: Spectrum of color Doppler findings

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1031-1041

  Kamaya, Aya ^a   Petrovitch, Ivan ^a   Chen, Bertha ^b   Frederick, Carrie E ^b   Jeffrey, R Brooke ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Color Doppler sonography; Postpartum; Retained products of conception; Uterine arteriovenous malformation; Uterus

Indexed keywords

COLOR; CORRELATION METHODS; DIAGNOSIS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; COLOR DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; POSTPARTUM; RETAINED PRODUCTS OF CONCEPTION; UTERUS;

DOPPLER EFFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RETAINED PRODUCT OF CONCEPTION; SYSTOLE; UTERINE BLOOD VESSEL; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

ABORTION, INCOMPLETE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLACENTA, RETAINED; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68249101912     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2009.28.8.1031     Document Type: Article

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