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Endometriosis MRI lexicon: consensus statement from the society of abdominal radiology endometriosis disease-focused panel

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Endometriosis is a common gynecologic disorder characterized by the presence of ectopic endometrial tissue outside the endometrial cavity. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has become a mainstay for diagnosis and staging of this disease. In the literature, significant heterogeneity exists in the descriptions of imaging findings and anatomic sites of involvement. The Society of Abdominal Radiology’s Endometriosis Disease-Focused Panel presents this consensus document to establish an MRI lexicon for endometriosis MRI evaluation and anatomic localization.

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  1. Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, Box 0628, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Priyanka Jha & Liina Poder

  2. Department of Radiology, Michigan Medicine (University of Michigan), Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Michelle Sakala

  3. Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Chamié Imagem da Mulher, Fleury Medicina e Saúde, São Paulo, Brazil

    Luciana Pardini Chamie

  4. Cleveland Clinic Imaging Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Myra Feldman

  5. Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Nicole Hindman, Chenchan Huang, Angela Tong & Myles T. Taffel

  6. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Aoife Kilcoyne

  7. Department of Radiology, Columbia University / New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA

    Sherelle Laifer-Narin

  8. Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Science, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

    Refky Nicola

  9. Division of Abdominal Imaging, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    Anuradha Shenoy-Bhangle

  10. Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Wendy VanBuren

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Jha, P., Sakala, M., Chamie, L.P. et al. Endometriosis MRI lexicon: consensus statement from the society of abdominal radiology endometriosis disease-focused panel. Abdom Radiol 45, 1552–1568 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-019-02291-x

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