Study types
- article 11
- review 4
- letter 2
Condition tags
- endometriosis 16
- die_deep_infiltrating 8
- endometrioma 3
- bowel_endometriosis 2
- chronic_pelvic_pain 1
- infertility 1
Top journals
- Diagnostics 2
- Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology : the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2
- Journal of clinical medicine 1
- BioMed research international 1
- Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology : the journal of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 1
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article
2023
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 observation…
article
2023
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…
review
2021
Endometriosis is a common disease with an estimated prevalence between 5 and 15% in women of reproductive age (Giudice and Kao 2004). The most common anatomical sites of endometriosis are pelvic or...
letter
2021
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review
2021
Ultrasound is an effective tool to detect and characterize lesions of the uterosacral ligament, parametrium, and paracervix. They may be the site of diseases such as endometriosis and the later stages of cervical cancer. Endometriosis and a…
review
2020
Ultrasound is an effective tool to detect and characterize endometriosis lesions. Variances in endometriosis lesions' appearance and distorted anatomy secondary to adhesions and fibrosis present as major difficulties during the complete son…
article
2020
Endometriosis of the urinary tract is a rare condition that may lead to severe complications. At present, the major challenge appears to be the ultrasound differential diagnosis with diseases that can afflict the ureter and the bladder. Pre…
letter
2019
Transvaginal ultrasonography has become a well-established imaging tool for the diagnosis and follow-up of pelvic endometriosis. The ultrasound diagnosis of an endometrioma is simple when the characteristics of the lesions are typical1. An …
article
2019
review
2019
OBJECTIVES: A meta-analysis, with a head-to-head approach, was carried out to compare the three most common techniques for a deep pelvic endometriosis (DPE) diagnosis. We focused on: transvaginal-sonography (TVS), magnetic-resonance imaging…
article
2019
Up to one-third of fertile-age women with severe endometriosis suffer from colonic involvement. Transvaginal ultrasonography has become a first-line diagnostic tool for the study of the pelvis and more specifically for the diagnosis of pelv…
article
2008
BACKGROUND: The aim was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of transvaginal tenderness-guided ultrasonography in the identification of location of deep endometriosis. METHODS: Consecutive women scheduled for surgery in our Department for cl…
article
2008
To evaluate the role of transvaginal ultrasonography in the detection of pelvic adhesions in women suspected to have endometriomas. Ninety-seven women who underwent surgery for cystic ovarian endometriosis were prospectively recruited. All …
article
2008
Extrauterine pelvic diseases include several kinds of adnexal masses. In addition, pelvic adhesions and deep endometriosis can be considered extrauterine pelvic diseases. In this article we will review a practical approach to adnexal pathol…
article
2007
To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of transvaginal tenderness-guided ultrasonography in the identification of location of deep endometriotic implants. Sixty-five patients suspected to have deep pelvic endometriosis with or without infertil…
article
2007
The aim of our study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy of transvaginal tenderness-guided ultrasonography and pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in identification of the location of deep endometriosis implants. The study was perfor…
article
2007
To evaluate the intraobserver and interobserver agreement for identifying different kinds of benign cysts using typical B-mode ultrasonographic patterns, and to perform an external validation of the proposed ultrasonographic patterns. Digit…