Translabial three-dimensional ultrasonography compared with magnetic resonance imaging in detecting levator ani defects

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1190-1197

  Notten, Kim J B ^a   Kluivers, Kirsten B ^b   Fütterer, Jurgen J ^b   Schweitzer, Karlijn J ^b   Stoker, Jaap ^b   Mulder, Femke E ^b   Beets Tan, Regina G ^b   Vliegen, Roy F A ^b   Bossuyt, Patrick M ^b   Kruitwagen, Roy F P M ^b   Roovers, Jan Paul W R ^b   Weemhoff, Mirjam ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSENSUS; CYSTOCELE; DELANCEY SCORING SYSTEM; DIETZ SCORING SYSTEM; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEVATOR ANI DEFECT; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS FLOOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS INCONTINENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSLABIAL THREE DIMENSIONAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TRANSLABIAL ULTRASOUND; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC FLOOR; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84916918852     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000000560     Document Type: Article

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