Indeterminate adnexal masses at ultrasound: Effect of MRI imaging findings on diagnostic thinking and therapeutic decisions

European Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1301-1310

  Chilla, Bianka ^a   Hauser, Nik ^a   Singer, Gad ^a   Trippel, Mafalda ^a   Froehlich, Johannes M ^a   Kubik Huch, Rahel A ^a  

^a Cantonal Hospital Baden   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adnexal lesion; Costeffectiveness; Diagnostic efficacy; Diffusion weighted imaging; MRI; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADNEXA DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYSTADENOMA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENDOMETRIOID ADENOCARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIOID CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INDETERMINATE ADNEXAL MASS; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY METASTASIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TERATOMA; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SWITZERLAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959255772     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-010-2018-x     Document Type: Article

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