Pressure-dependent hydrometra dimensions in hysteroscopy

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2102-2109

  Bajka, Michael ^a   Weiss, Stephan ^b   Kunz, Juerg ^c   Fischer, Hans ^c   Székely, Gábor ^b   Niederer, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Hospital of Zollikerberg   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CT; Hydrometra; Hysteroscopy; Pressure; Virtual reality simulation; Volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AERATION; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; HYSTERESIS; HYSTEROSCOPY; INTRAUTERINE PRESSURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE; UTERINE FUNDUS; UTERUS CAVITY; VISCOELASTICITY; AIR; ANTHROPOMETRY; ELASTICITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HISTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UTERUS; VISCOSITY;

ADULT; AGED; AIR; ANTHROPOMETRY; ELASTICITY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; HYSTEROSCOPY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INSUFFLATION; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; UTERUS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 73349095408     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-008-0231-3     Document Type: Article

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