Value of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Diagnosis of Adenomyosis and Myomas of the Uterus

Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 620-626

  Stamatopoulos, Charalampos P ^a   Mikos, Themistoklis ^a   Grimbizis, Grigoris F ^a   Dimitriadis, Athanasios S ^a   Efstratiou, Ioannis ^b   Stamatopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Tarlatzis, Basil C ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Department of Pathology   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adenomyosis; Magnetic resonance imaging; MRI; Myoma; ROC analysis; Uterine tumors

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADENOMYOSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS SARCOMA; UTERUS TUMOR;

ADENOMYOSIS; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LEIOMYOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84865534555     PISSN: 15534650     EISSN: 15534669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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