Shirley McCarthy
ORCID: 0009-0001-9300-4857
· 13 papers in corpus
review
2013
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: During the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of cesarean deliveries, and thus an increase in the number of complications. A common complication of multiple cesarean deliveries i…
2011
2011
case-report
2007
We describe a 37-year-old patient who presented with right lower quadrant pain and intermenstrual bleeding. MRI demonstrated a 5 x 5 cm lobulated mass centered in the right uterine wall interpreted as suspicious for malignancy. A total hyst…
case-report
1998
Adenomyosis of the uterus is most often seen as focal or diffuse thickening of the myometrial junctional zone on MRI. We describe the morphologic features and signal characteristics of the rarer cystic form of the disease, as revealed by MR…
diagnostic-accuracy
1996
PURPOSE: To compare the accuracy of endovaginal ultrasound (US) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in the diagnosis of adenomyosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The authors prospectively studied 119 consecutive patients undergoing hysterectomy.…
1995
diagnostic-accuracy
1994
OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to determine the sensitivity, specificity, predictive value, and accuracy of pelvic MRI in the prospective evaluation of women with a clinically suspected pelvic mass. MATERIALS AND METHODS: One-hundred three patien…
review
1990
The advent of MRI has improved the ability of the diagnostic radiologist to provide useful clinical information to the practicing gynecologist. Although US remains the screening procedure of choice for evaluation of the uterus and adnexa be…
review
1990
Gynecologic anatomy is consistently depicted with MRI. Abnormal developmental anatomy is also well assessed. In cases of complete or partial vaginal agenesis where ultrasound is equivocal, MRI can be definitive. The various subtypes of uter…
review
1990
Infertility can be due to a variety of causes, ranging from genetic or endocrine disturbances to structural abnormalities. Imaging is often used in the evaluation of anatomic abnormalities. The advent of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has…
nonrandomized-trial
1990
The utility of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in assessing response to therapy with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analog was assessed in 19 women with uterine leiomyomas and 19 women with endometriosis. There was a significant re…
diagnostic-accuracy
1989
Thirty-nine magnetic resonance (MR) studies were performed on 31 women with surgically proved endometriosis. A total of 88 endometriotic lesions ranging in size from 0.2 to 7.5 cm were detected on 24 of 30 MR images of women. The signal int…