Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Evaluation of Acute Abdominal Pain in Pregnancy

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 433-441

  Beddy, Peter ^a   Keogan, Mary T ^b   Sala, Evis ^c   Griffin, Nyree ^d  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY TORSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS RUPTURE;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADNEXAL DISEASES; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; TORSION ABNORMALITY; UROLOGIC DISEASES; UTERINE RUPTURE;

EID: 77958189741     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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