title: Chronic lower urinary tract symptoms in women: classification of abnormalities and value of dedicated MRI for diagnosis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Chronic lower urinary tract symptoms are common in women. We present a classification of abnormalities that can be considered in the differential diagnosis for lower urinary tract symptoms and can show the value of dedicated state-of-the art MRI in the workup of patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Dedicated MRI tailored to patient symptoms and clinical findings has the potential to map out morphologic causes and categorize dysfunctional conditions from those that are truly nonmorphologic.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Radiology, Abdominal Imaging Section, Erasmus MC, University Hospital Rotterdam, Rm Hs-257, 's-Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Roy S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Dwarkasing
authors.forename: Sylvia I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Verschuuren
authors.forename: Geert J L H
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Leenders
authors.forename: Maarten G J
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Thomeer
authors.forename: Gerardus R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Dohle
authors.forename: Gabriel P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Krestin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D059411:Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D014563:Urodynamics