Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology : the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

The development of imaging methods over the last 50 years has revolutionized medicine, broadening the diagnostic possibilities in a non-invasive way. The use and storage of digital data allow immediate review of information obtained. More r…

The primary aim was to investigate what happened to the patients who had symptoms suggesting endometriosis but who initially had no signs of endometriosis on advanced transvaginal ultrasound examination. The secondary aim of this study was …

OBJECTIVES: To review the accuracy of different imaging modalities for the detection of rectosigmoid deep endometriosis (DE) in women with clinical suspicion of endometriosis, and to determine the optimal modality. METHODS: A search was co…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence and morphological appearance of deep endometriosis and ovarian endometrioma using pelvic ultrasound examination in women attending for an early pregnancy assessment. METHODS: This was a prospective observ…

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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the agreement of measurements of the three diameters of rectosigmoid deep endometriosis (DE) lesions between presurgical evaluation using transvaginal sonography (TVS) and postsurgical specimen measurement (PSM). …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the accuracy of transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) in diagnosing deep endometriosis (DE) involving the uterosacral ligaments (USLs), torus uterinus (TU) or posterior vaginal fornix (PVF) in women with suspected endometrios…

42-year-old female presents to the Emergency Department with a palpable right groin mass, which has been increasing in size over the past three days. Patient reported no significant medical history. Clinical examination revealed an immobile…

To study how adenomyosis modifies in pregnancy and to correlate these changes to maternal and fetal outcomes. Retrospective cohort study including 254 women between 2016 and 2020. Inclusion criteria were: ≧1 transvaginal ultrasound (TV-US) …

OBJECTIVES: To analyze the effect of bowel preparation prior to transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) examination on the detection of bowel involvement and the description of rectosigmoid nodules of deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE), and to eva…

Uterine contractions may affect the thickness and features of the myometrial wall as well as the shape of the uterine cavity. The transient nature of these changes can be appreciated during real-time two-dimensional ultrasound examination a…

Transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been demonstrated to have a high diagnostic accuracy for ovarian endometriomas (OE), deep endometriosis (DE) and pouch of Douglas (POD) obliteration when performed and …

Given the challenges of the current coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and to protect both patients and ultrasound providers (physicians, sonographers, allied professionals), the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecolo…

OBJECTIVES: Pouch of Douglas (POD) obliteration can be predicted with a high degree of certainty and reproducibility using the dynamic transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) sliding-sign technique. So far, studies on POD obliteration prediction have…

OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were (1) to assess the prevalence of ultrasound (US) features of adenomyosis in an infertile population undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF), (2) to define the inter- and intrarater agreement of t…

OBJECTIVES: First, to investigate the accuracy of transvaginal sonography (TVS) for presurgical evaluation of the distance between the most caudal part of the endometriotic lesion and the anal verge (lesion-to-anal-verge distance (LAVD)) in…

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 …

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether significant hemoperitoneum could be a precursor of deep pelvic endometriosis in non-pregnant premenopausal women presenting with severe acute lower abdominal pain. METHODS: This was a prospective observationa…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate how many examinations it takes to be able to identify the pelvic parts of the ureters on transvaginal sonography (TVS). METHODS: This was a prospective study including consecutive women attending a gynecological ou…

The uterosacral ligaments (USL) have been reported to be the most common site of deep endometriosis (DE) in the pelvis1. A nodule within the USL may infiltrate the parametrium, increasing the complexity of surgical resection, and larger nod…

OBJECTIVE: To compare the value of using one-stop magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) vs standard radiological imaging as a supplement to transvaginal ultrasonography (TVS) for the preoperative assessment of patients with endometriosis referre…

ObjectiveTo generate guidance for detailed uterine niche evaluation by ultrasonography in the non-pregnant woman, using a modified Delphi procedure amongst European experts.MethodsTwenty gynecological experts were approached through their m…

OBJECTIVES: Deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) of the rectosigmoid is associated with painful symptoms. When medical treatment is ineffective, surgical resection remains the standard treatment, despite significant risk of adverse events.…

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of ultrasound (US) soft markers as a first-line imaging tool to raise suspicion of rectosigmoid (RS) involvement in women suspected of having deep endometriosis. METHODS: We included…