"Onion skin" sign in an ovarian mucinous cyst

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 63-64

  Perlman, Sharon ^a,b   Hazan, Yenon ^a,b   Hagay, Zion ^a,b   Appelman, Zvi ^a,b   Caspi, Benjamin ^a,b  

^a KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gynecology; Mucinous cystadenoma; Ovaries; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYSTADENOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY TUMOR; SALPINGECTOMY;

CYSTADENOMA, MUCINOUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARIECTOMY; SALPINGECTOMY;

EID: 84871012919     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: 10970096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.21872     Document Type: Article

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