D. Timmerman

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…

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STUDY QUESTION: Which essential items should be recorded before, during and after endometriosis surgery and in clinical outcome based surgical trials in patients with deep endometriosis (DE)? SUMMARY ANSWER: A DE surgical sheet (DESS) was …

To illustrate the detection of extrauterine pathology not related to ovarian disease nor deep infiltrating endometriosis in women undergoing transvaginal gynecological ultrasonography. We present a series of 20 illustrative cases detected a…

To compare ultrasonographic features of uterine lesions with the findings at macroscopy and microscopy. Case series of 10 consecutive women undergoing a hysterectomy for uterine pathology. A preoperative transvaginal ultrasound examination …

The use of in vitro three-dimensional ultrasound examination with needle stereotaxis after hysterectomy is illustrated in a case of extensive adenomyosis. The quality of the images at in vitro ultrasonography was compared with the quality o…

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The IDEA (International Deep Endometriosis Analysis group) statement is a consensus opinion on terms, definitions and measurements that may be used to describe the sonographic features of the different phenotypes of endometriosis. Currently…

INTRODUCTION: Preoperative characterisation of ovarian masses into benign or malignant is of paramount importance to optimise patient management. OBJECTIVES: In this study, we developed and validated a computerised model to characterise ov…

In multicentre studies, measurements will vary between centres for various reasons (e.g. subjectivity of measurements, differences in equipment, deviations from the protocol and differences in patient populations). The aim of this interim a…

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: The aim of this study was to find the best 3D reconstruction technique to visualize the endometrial-myometrial junction (EMJ). METHODS: Retrospective observational study on 240 stored 3D volumes of 80 patients. The first author…

The MUSA (Morphological Uterus Sonographic Assessment) statement is a consensus statement on terms, definitions and measurements that may be used to describe and report the sonographic features of the myometrium using gray-scale sonography,…

We will describe a case of a patient diagnosed with a rare identity of a benign lesion, "reactive nodular fibrous pseudotumor" (RNFP). It is a tumor which preoperatively can present as a malignant tumor and is only reported in 19 cases. Acc…

Focal adenomyosis may be missed by the pathologist at examination of the hysterectomy specimen. In this report we suggest a new method allowing in vitro, ultrasound guided localization of adenomysosis lesions prior to anatomo-pathological e…

To review the currently available literature regarding the role of ultrasonography in the management of uterine fibroids. Literature review of articles concerning the conservative treatment of uterine fibroids. Ultrasound examination allows…

BACKGROUND: To compare different ultrasound-based international ovarian tumour analysis (IOTA) strategies and risk of malignancy index (RMI) for ovarian cancer diagnosis using a meta-analysis approach of centre-specific data from IOTA3. ME…

Characterizing ovarian masses enables patients with malignancy to be appropriately triaged for treatment by subspecialist gynecological oncologists, which has been shown to optimize care and improve survival. Furthermore, correctly classify…

Due to the confounding or unknown presence of endometriosis in both cases and controls, it is difficult to test the hypothesis that adenomyosis causes infertility. Based on the limited available evidence, there is evidence to support a caus…

STUDY QUESTION: Can the ability of the endometriosis fertility index (EFI) to predict non-assisted reproductive technology (ART) pregnancy after endometriosis surgery be confirmed by an external validation study? SUMMARY ANSWER: The signif…

The aim of this pictorial essay is to describe the ultrasound characteristics of the mucocele of the appendix (MA) by transvaginal ultrasound. The databases of the pathology and gynaecology departments of two Belgian hospitals were retrospe…

BACKGROUND: To translate the concept of full-conditioning (FC) from animal experiments to the human, and to evaluate the efficacy for adhesion prevention. FC consisted of decreasing acute inflammation by 86% CO2+ 10% N2O + 4% O2 for the pne…

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…