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Hysteroscopic metroplasty improves reproductive outcomes in women with a dysmorphic uterus, but the impact of adenomyosis in these patients is uncertain. We retrospectively analysed 69 women who underwent metroplasty for a dysmorphic uterus…

OBJECTIVE: Although artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being applied to ultrasound imaging in gynecology, efforts to synthesize the available evidence have been inadequate. The aim of this systematic review was to summarize and ev…

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate ureteral involvement using transvaginal sonography (TVS) regarding the distortion of the course of the ureters caused by deep endometriosis (DE), which can facilitate predicting the need for ureterolysis during surger…

Preoperative sonographic staging in patients with suspected parametrial endometriosis is essential to plan surgical intervention and anticipate the need for a multidisciplinary approach, and thus optimize surgical outcome. The results of a …

RESEARCH QUESTION: How do clinical rectovaginal examination and transvaginal ultrasound examination perform in the diagnosis of parametrial infiltration in patients with endometriosis? DESIGN: This was a multicentre prospective observationa…

During a recent international multidisciplinary meeting (Marathon for Solidarity, November 2022; https://roma.unicatt.it/evt-ultrasound-of-pelvic-anatomy-marathon-for-solidarity), we discussed the methodology to assess the parametrium on ul…

To assess the performance of both clinical rectovaginal and transvaginal ultrasound examinations in the diagnosis of parametrial infiltration in patients with endometriosis, using surgery as reference standard. This is a multicentre prospec…

Tailgut cysts (or rectal cyst hamartomas) are retrorectal developmental cysts. They originate from the tailgut and embryological remnants of neuroenteric canal in the presacral-retrorectal space. At macroscopy, they are usually multilocular…

Intraoperative ultrasound (IOUS) is an imaging technique already used in different surgical scenarios, nevertheless only few case series have been published on the role of IOUS in gynecologic surgery. The aim of this study was to describe a…

OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical and ultrasound characteristics of ovarian pure endometrioid carcinomas. METHODS: This was a retrospective multicenter study of patients with a histological diagnosis of pure endometrioid carcinoma. We ide…

OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical and ultrasound characteristics of ovarian pure clear cell carcinoma. METHODS: This was a retrospective study involving data from 11 ultrasound centers. From the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA)…

To describe sonographic features of the microcystic elongated and fragmented (MELF) pattern of myometrial invasion (MI) using the International Endometrial Tumor Analysis (IETA) criteria; to assess the effect of the MELF pattern on preopera…

OBJECTIVE: To assess whether routine examination of the ureters on transvaginal sonography (TVS) can identify reliably potential silent ureteral involvement by endometriosis and should therefore be recommended in all patients with deep infi…

To describe clinical and ultrasound features of ovarian clear cell carcinoma (CCC). Patients with a histological diagnosis of ovarian CCC, who had undergone preoperative ultrasound examination, were retrospectively identified from ten ultra…

To describe Ultrasound (US) characteristics of three cases of decidualised ectopic implants of endometriosis during pregnancy. Between 2014 and 2017 we collected three pregnant patients in which the presence of hypoechoic peritoneal tissue …

To describe clinical and ultrasound features of ovarian endometrioid carcinoma. Patients with a histological diagnosis of ovarian endometrioid carcinoma, who had undergone preoperative ultrasound, were retrospectively identified from 10 ult…

STUDY QUESTION: Do sonographic characteristics of ovarian endometriomas vary with age in premenopausal women? SUMMARY ANSWER: With increasing age, multilocular cysts and cysts with papillations and other solid components become more common …

To assess ultrasonographic features of adnexal endometriomas in relation to patient age in premenopausal patients. Retrospective cross-sectional analysis of 5914 adnexal masses from the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) study. All…

OBJECTIVES: To describe the clinical history and ultrasound findings in women with decidualized endometriomas surgically removed during pregnancy. METHODS: In this retrospective study, women with a histological diagnosis of decidualized end…

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the diagnostic accuracy and interobserver agreement in predicting intracavitary uterine pathology at offline analysis of three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound volumes of the uterus. METHODS: 3D volumes (unenhanced ultras…

To describe the clinical history and ultrasound findings in women with decidualized endometriomas. Women with a histological diagnosis of decidualized endometrioma during pregnancy who had undergone preoperative ultrasound examination were …

OBJECTIVES: To describe sonographic characteristics of malignant transformation in endometrioid cysts. METHODS: Women with a histological diagnosis of ovarian endometrioid cysts, borderline tumors arising in endometrioid cysts and carcinom…