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

Priyanka Jha; Michelle Sakala; Luciana Pardini Chamie; Myra Feldman; Nicole Hindman; Chenchan Huang; Aoife Kilcoyne; Sherelle Laifer-Narin; Refky Nicola; Liina Poder; Anuradha Shenoy-Bhangle; Angela Tong; Wendy VanBuren; Myles T Taffel

doi:10.1007/s00261-019-02291-x

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

Abdom Radiol (NY). 2020 Jun;45(6):1552-1568. doi: 10.1007/s00261-019-02291-x.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, Box 0628, San Francisco, CA, USA. [email protected].
² Department of Radiology, Michigan Medicine (University of Michigan), Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
³ Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Chamié Imagem da Mulher, Fleury Medicina e Saúde, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Cleveland Clinic Imaging Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁵ Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁶ Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Department of Radiology, Columbia University / New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
⁸ Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Science, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
⁹ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, Box 0628, San Francisco, CA, USA.
¹⁰ Division of Abdominal Imaging, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
¹¹ Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

PMID: 31728612
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-019-02291-x

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Deep infiltrative endometriosis; Endometriosis; Lexicon; MRI; Magnetic resonance imaging.

MeSH terms

Consensus
Endometriosis* / diagnostic imaging
Female
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Radiography
Radiology*