Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Volume 20, Issue 7 , Pages 977-980 , July 2009

Effect of Postprocedural Pelvic MR Imaging on Medical Decision-making in Women who Have Undergone Uterine Artery Embolization

Received 9 July 2008 ,Revised 6 March 2009 ,Accepted 17 March 2009.

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 From the SIR 2007 Annual Meeting.

 None of the authors have identified a conflict of interest.

PII: S1051-0443(09)00341-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jvir.2009.03.041

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Volume 20, Issue 7 , Pages 977-980 , July 2009

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