Abdominal radiology (New York)

review 2016

Deep pelvic endometriosis: a radiologist's guide to key imaging features with clinical and histopathologic review

doi:10.1007/s00261-016-0956-8 ·PMID:27832323

While endometriosis typically affects the ovaries, deep infiltrating endometriosis can affect the gastrointestinal tract, urinary tract, and deep pelvis, awareness of which is important for radiologists. Symptoms are nonspecific and can ran…

observational 2016

Is pelvic MRI in women presenting with pelvic endometriosis suggestive of associated ileal, appendicular, or cecal involvement?

doi:10.1007/s00261-016-0884-7 ·PMID:27590068

PURPOSE: To evaluate whether deep pelvic endometriosis or endometriomas diagnosed at pelvic MRI are associated with extrapelvic bowel endometriosis (EPBE) (ileal, appendicular, or cecal involvement) in order to suggest criteria for performi…

other 2016

MR assessment of myometrial invasion in women with endometrial cancer: discrepancy between T2-weighted imaging and contrast-enhanced T1-weighted imaging

doi:10.1007/s00261-015-0607-5 ·PMID:26830619

PURPOSE: The purpose of the study was to investigate how frequently discrepant imaging findings are encountered between T2-weighted imaging and contrast-enhanced T1-weighted imaging in the preoperative magnetic resonance (MR) assessment of …

other 2016

Sonographic evaluation of deep endometriosis: protocol for a US radiology practice

doi:10.1007/s00261-016-0886-5 ·PMID:27624497

Endometriosis is a common condition with significant morbidity, including pain and subfertility, which is often subject to a delay in diagnosis. Ultrasound has been successfully utilized, mostly outside North America, to preoperatively stag…