Findings of pelvic endo-metriosis at transvaginal US, MR imaging, and laparoscopy

Radiographics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Chamié, Luciana Pardini ^a   Blasbalg, Roberto ^a,b   Ricar do Mendes, Alves Pereira ^c   Warmbrand, Gisele ^a,b   Serafini, Paulo Cesar ^b,c  

^a Diagnostic Image Laboratory   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Huntington Medicina Reprodutiva   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PELVIS; VAGINA;

ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VAGINA;

EID: 79960571956     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.314105193     Document Type: Article

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