title: Magnetic resonance imaging of maternal diseases causing acute abdominal pain during pregnancy: a pictorial review.
abstract: Evaluation of acute abdominal pain in a pregnant patient is a clinical challenge. In these patients, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can allow a systematic cross-sectional evaluation of the entire abdomen and can provide clinically useful information in a short enough time for emergent diagnosis. This pictorial essay demonstrates MRI findings of various maternal diseases that can present as acute abdominal pain in pregnant patients. Familiarity with these findings is important for the radiologist to make an accurate and prompt diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-0709, USA. ayoto@utmb.edu
authors.forename: Aytekin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oto
authors.forename: Padmavathia N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Srinivasan
authors.forename: Randy D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Ernst
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chaljub
authors.forename: Alfred F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Gei
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Saade
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D000208:Acute Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011859:Radiography