title: Enhancing the needle count in the haystack: serial ultrasonography for low-to-moderate risk adnexal masses.
authors: Dr. Herzog is from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; e-mail: th2135@cumc.columbia.edu.
authors: Thomas J
authors: TJ
authors: Herzog
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010049:Ovarian Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014463:Ultrasonography
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