Ultrasonographic staging: A new staging system for deep endometriosis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1221, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-69

  Coccia, Maria Elisabetta ^a   Rizzello, Francesca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classification; Deep infiltrating endometriosis; DIE; Endometriosis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADENOMYOSIS; ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEEP ENDOMETRIOSIS; DEEPLY INFILTRATING ENDOMETRIOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARIAN ENDOMETRIOMA; OVARY ENDOMETRIOSIS; PERITONEAL ENDOMETRIOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTOVAGINAL POUCH ENDOMETRIOSIS; RECTOVAGINAL SEPTUM ENDOMETRIOSIS; RETROCERVICAL ENDOMETRIOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERUS SURGERY;

EID: 79952651690     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.05951.x     Document Type: Article

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