D. Jurkovic

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a common condition which causes pain and reduced fertility. Treatment can be difficult, especially for severe disease, and an accurate preoperative assessment would greatly help in the managment of these patient…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the feasibility of identifying pelvic segments of normal ureters and measuring their size on standard transvaginal ultrasound examination. METHODS: This was a prospective observational study from June to July 2012…

Endometrial cancer is the commonest cancer of the female genital tract in the developed world. Ultrasound measurement of endometrial thickness is commonly used to triage patients with postmenopausal bleeding for histological sampling. The s…

STUDY QUESTION: What is the prevalence of adenomyosis in a population of women attending a general gynaecological clinic? SUMMARY ANSWER: Adenomyosis was present in 206 of 985 [20.9%; 95% confidence interval (CI): 18.5-23.6%] women include…

OBJECTIVE: To examine the reproducibility of assessment of severity of pelvic endometriosis by transvaginal sonography (TVS). METHODS: This was a prospective observational study conducted from August 2006 to July 2009 in two academic depar…

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a common benign condition, which is characterized by the growth of endometrial-like tissue in ectopic sites outside the uterus. Laparoscopic excision of the disease is frequently carried out for the treatment of…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine the ability of preoperative transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) scanning to assess the severity of pelvic endometriosis. METHODS: Consecutive women with clinically suspected or proven pelvic …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the ability of acoustic streaming to discriminate between endometriomas and other adnexal masses. METHODS: We used data from 1938 patients with an adnexal mass included in Phase 2 of the International Ovarian Tumor …

OBJECTIVES: To determine the sensitivity and specificity of subjective evaluation of gray-scale and Doppler ultrasound findings (here called pattern recognition) when used by experienced ultrasound examiners with regard to making a specific…

To assess if transvaginal ultrasound examination can accurately predict the severity of pelvic endometriosis. This would facilitate the triaging of patients with severe disease to specialist tertiary referral centres where their surgical ca…

Routine ultrasound examination of the uterus includes a detailed assessment of the morphological characteristics of the myometrium and endometrium. These two main functional components of the uterus display different acoustic properties, wh…

Acoustic streaming is the movement of fluid in a cyst due to energy transfer from the US wave. A previous study reported that absence of acoustic streaming could be a typical characteristic of an endometrioma (Eoma). The aim is to examine w…

OBJECTIVES: To assess the value of preoperative ultrasound examination in predicting the feasibility of intermediate-level laparoscopic surgery for benign adnexal masses. METHODS: Symptomatic women with a clinical or ultrasound diagnosis o…

To assess the value of pelvic ultrasound scan in excluding pelvic pathology in women with history of chronic pelvic pain. Women with history of chronic pelvic pain were examined by transvaginal ultrasound scan. A negative ultrasound scan wa…

To assess the value of preoperative ultrasound examination for predicting success of laparoscopic surgery in women with adnexal masses. Symptomatic women with clinical or ultrasound diagnosis of adnexal mass were offered a detailed transvag…

We are using transvaginal ultrasonography with color Doppler imaging to study changes in intrafollicular blood flow over the periovulatory period. We report here the findings from one volunteer (subject 9), who took two tablets of paracetam…