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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2024

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Endometriosis: The Role of Advanced Techniques.

Laura Alonzo, Roberto Cannella, Giuseppe Gullo, Giulia Piombo, Giuseppe Cicero, Alessandra Lopez, Valentina Billone, Alessandra Andrisani, Gaspare Cucinella, Antonio Lo Casto and 1 more

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Laura AlonzoDepartment of Biomedicine, Neuroscience and Advanced Diagnostic (BI.N.D.), University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9644-7987
Roberto CannellaDepartment of Biomedicine, Neuroscience and Advanced Diagnostic (BI.N.D.), University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3808-0785
Giuseppe GulloUnit of Obstetrics and Gynecology, AOOR Villa Sofia Cervello, University of Palermo, 90100 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4269-4269
Giulia PiomboDepartment of Biomedicine, Neuroscience and Advanced Diagnostic (BI.N.D.), University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Giuseppe CiceroDepartment of Precision Medicine in Medical, Surgical and Critical Care Area, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Alessandra LopezUnit of Obstetrics and Gynecology, AOOR Villa Sofia Cervello, University of Palermo, 90100 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1041-3189
Valentina BilloneUnit of Obstetrics and Gynecology, AOOR Villa Sofia Cervello, University of Palermo, 90100 Palermo, Italy.
Alessandra AndrisaniUnit of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department of Women and Children's Health, University of Padua, 35128 Padua, Italy.
Gaspare CucinellaUnit of Obstetrics and Gynecology, AOOR Villa Sofia Cervello, University of Palermo, 90100 Palermo, Italy.
Antonio Lo CastoDepartment of Biomedicine, Neuroscience and Advanced Diagnostic (BI.N.D.), University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Giuseppe Lo ReDepartment of Biomedicine, Neuroscience and Advanced Diagnostic (BI.N.D.), University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects about 10% of women, and it is characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity. Associated symptoms are dyspareunia, chronic pelvic pain, and infertility. The diagnosis of endometriosis can be challenging due to various clinical and imaging presentations. Laparoscopy is the gold standard for the diagnosis, but it is an invasive procedure. The literature has increasingly promoted a switch to less invasive imaging techniques, such as ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The latter, also in relation to the latest technological advances, allows a comprehensive and accurate assessment of the pelvis and it can also identify sites of endometriosis that escape laparoscopic evaluation. Furthermore, MRI has been found to be more accurate than other imaging techniques in relation to its improved sensitivity and specificity in identifying disease sites, also due to the role of new emerging sequences. This article aims to review the current role of advanced MRI applications in the assessment of endometriosis.

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diffusion weighted imagingendometriosisfemale pelvismagnetic resonance imagingtractography

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PMID39407843
PMCPMC11476566

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