MR imaging of retained products of conception.
OBJECTIVE
The objective of this article is to describe the MR imaging appearances of retained products of conception.


CONCLUSIONS
Retained products of conception appear on MR imaging as an intracavitary uterine soft-tissue mass with variable amounts of enhancing tissue and variable degrees of myometrial thinning and obliteration of the junctional zone. These findings should not be misinterpreted as indicating gestational trophoblastic disease, particularly in the setting of a postpartum patient with a normal or minimally elevated beta-human chorionic gonadotropin level. MR imaging may also be helpful in showing anatomic variants that hinder successful instrumentation of the uterine cavity in patients with suspected retained products of conception.
Noonan
Jaime B
JB
Emory University School of Medicine, 1440 Clifton Rd., N.E., Atlanta, GA 30322-4510, USA.
Coakley
Fergus V
FV
Qayyum
Aliya
A
Yeh
Benjamin M
BM
Wu
Louis
L
Chen
Lee-may
LM
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D018457:Placenta, Retained / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014599:Uterus / Q000473:pathology