Koenraad J. Mortelé

review 2021

The “Speckle Sign” in the Diagnosis of Posterior Compartment Endometriosis

Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine ·doi:10.1002/jum.15611

OBJECTIVE: To determine usefulness of the "speckle sign" in the diagnosis of deep invasive endometriosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This HIPAA-compliant, institutional review board-approved retrospective study with informed consent waived incl…

review 2020

Imaging of gastrointestinal endometriosis: what the radiologist should know

Abdominal radiology (New York) ·doi:10.1007/s00261-020-02459-w

Deep invasive gastrointestinal endometriosis (DIGIE) is a frequent and severe presentation of endometriosis. Although most cases invade the rectosigmoid colon, DIGIE can involve any portion of the gastrointestinal tract from the stomach to …

article 2019

Pelvic MRI in the diagnosis and staging of pelvic endometriosis: added value of structured reporting and expertise

Abdominal radiology (New York) ·doi:10.1007/s00261-019-02199-6

PurposeTo compare the diagnostic characteristics of routine-read (RR), structured-reported read (SR), and structured expert-read pelvic (SER) MRI for staging of pelvic endometriosis in a tertiary care academic center.MethodsOf 530 patients …

article 2018

MRI Staging of Endometriosis: How to Provide Value Based Reads!

·doi:10.1016/j.jmig.2018.09.071

article 2018

Multimodality imaging and clinicopathologic assessment of abdominal wall endometriosis: knocking down the enigma

Abdominal radiology (New York) ·doi:10.1007/s00261-018-1666-1

PurposeTo review the clinical, multimodality imaging, and pathologic characteristics of abdominal wall endometriosis (AWE), the most common type of extra-pelvic endometriosis.Methods116 women with histopathologically confirmed extragenital …