Transvaginal US after bowel preparation for deeply infiltrating endometriosis: Protocol, imaging appearances, and laparoscopic correlation

Radiographics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1235-1249

  Chamié, Luciana Pardini ^a   Pereira, Ricardo Mendes Alves ^b   Zanatta, Alysson ^b   Serafini, Paulo Cesar ^b,c  

^a Fleury Medicina e Saúde ^*  (Brazil)

^b Huntington Medicina Reprodutiva   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTESTINE; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTESTINES; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77957732158     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.305095221     Document Type: Article

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