Imaging pelvic floor disorders: Trend toward comprehensive MRI

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1640-1649

  Woodfield, Courtney A ^a,b,c   Krishnamoorthy, Saravanan ^d   Hampton, Brittany S ^b,c   Brody, Jeffrey M ^a,b,c  

^a RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluoroscopy; Incontinence; MRI; Pelvic floor; Pelvic organ prolapse; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CUL DE SAC DEFECT; CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECOGRAPHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIC DISEASE; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS FLOOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL DISEASE; REVIEW; SUBURETHRAL SLING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; URINE INCONTINENCE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; UTERUS PROLAPSE;

CONTRAST MEDIA; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIC FLOOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URINARY INCONTINENCE; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 77953249304     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3670     Document Type: Review

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