The Use of Modified Virtual Colonoscopy to Structure a Descriptive Imaging Classification With Implied Severity for Rectogenital and Disseminated Endometriosis

Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 543-546

  Van der Wat, Johan ^a   Kaplan, Mitch D ^b   Roman, Horace ^c   Da Costa, Carla ^c  

^a Endometriosis Institute of Southern Africa   (South Africa)

^b Rosebank Clinic   (South Africa)

^c ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; BARIUM ENEMA; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FISTULA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED ENDOMETRIOSIS; EDITORIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; LAPAROSCOPIC INSUFFLATOR; LARGE INTESTINE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COLONOSCOPY; PATIENT COUNSELING; RADIATION DOSE; RECTOGENITAL ENDOMETRIOSIS; RETURN TO WORK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84883788224     PISSN: 15534650     EISSN: 15534669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2013.04.001     Document Type: Editorial

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