Imaging modalities for the non-invasive diagnosis of endometriosis

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Volumn 2016, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Nisenblat, Vicki ^a   Bossuyt, Patrick M M ^b   Farquhar, Cindy ^c   Johnson, Neil ^a   Hull, M Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; GESTAGEN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADOTROPIN ANTAGONIST;

ANATOMIC LANDMARK; BOWEL ENDOMETRIOSIS; CLINICAL PATHWAY; COLON DISEASE; CONTRACEPTION; DEEPLY INFILTRATING ENDOMETRIOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENTEROPATHY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; GYNECOLOGICAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARIAN ENDOMETRIOSIS; OVARY DISEASE; PELVIC DISEASE; PELVIC ENDOMETRIOSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECTAL ENDOSCOPIC SONOGRAPHY; RECTAL WATER CONTRAST TRANSVAGINAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; RECTOSIGMOID ENDOMETRIOSIS; RECTOVAGINAL ENDOMETRIOSIS; REVIEW; SONOVAGINOGRAPHY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TENDERNESS GUIDED TRANSVAGINAL ULTRASOUND; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINAL WALL ENDOMETRIOSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; OVARIAN DISEASES; PATHOLOGY; PELVIS; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARIAN DISEASES; PELVIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84961891999     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009591.pub2     Document Type: Review

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