Value of diagnostic procedures in rectovaginal endometriosis

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 389-394

  Mangler, Mandy ^a   Medrano, Natalie ^a   Bartley, Julia ^a   Mechsner, Sylvia ^a   Speiser, Dorothee ^a   Schneider, Achim ^a   Köhler, Christhardt ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

bowel endometriosis; imaging techniques in endometriosis; MRI; rectal endosonography; rectovaginal endometriosis

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOVAGINAL ENDOMETRIOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROCEDURES; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; VAGINAL DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VAGINAL DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880623110     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajo.12108     Document Type: Article

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