The endometrium on routine contrast-enhanced CT in asymptomatic postmenopausal women
Autor: | Alfred B. Kurtz, Levon N. Nazarian, Laurence Parker, Philip S. Lim, Richard J. Wechsler |
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Rok vydání: | 2002 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Postmenopausal women business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Uterus Myometrium Endometrium medicine.disease Asymptomatic Menopause medicine.anatomical_structure medicine Contrast (vision) Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiology medicine.symptom Overdiagnosis business media_common |
Zdroj: | Clinical Imaging. 26:325-329 |
ISSN: | 0899-7071 |
DOI: | 10.1016/s0899-7071(02)00443-6 |
Popis: | We studied 54 asymptomatic postmenopausal women to characterize normal contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) appearance of endometrium. Endometrium was visualized in 26 out of 54 (48.1%) women, and when seen its mean short-axis thickness was 7.5 mm. The anteroposterior thickness varied directly with uterine angulation (P |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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