Australasian journal of ultrasound in medicine

OBJECTIVES: Accurate diagnosis of pathology from ultrasound images is reliant upon images of a suitable diagnostic quality being acquired. This study aimed to create a novel machine learning model to automatically assess transvaginal ultras…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of complex disease states, including pouch of Douglas (POD) obliteration and deep endometriosis (DE) of the bowel, on the diagnostic accuracy of transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS) for detecting endometriosis of t…

Introduction/Purpose: The 2016 consensus statement from the International Deep Endometriosis Analysis group (IDEA) outlined a transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS) approach specific for the sonographic assessment of endometriosis (eTVUS). However,…

INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND: Uterosacral ligaments (USL) are the most common sites of endometriosis. Transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) demonstrates high diagnostic accuracy for endometriosis of the USLs using standardised technique and characterisa…

Purpose: The anatomical distribution of deep endometriosis (DE) is essential in treating patients with symptoms associated with the disease. There is an evidence gap in correlating clinical features and symptoms with disease patterns. The s…

Abstract Introduction This study aimed to determine the additional time needed to perform an endometriosis transvaginal ultrasound (eTVUS) compared to routine transvaginal ultrasound (rTVUS). Methods A retrospective case–control study was p…

Ultrasound is the first-line imaging modality in the assessment of the female reproductive system in all age groups. However, the paediatric and adolescent subset of patients present a particular set of challenges. These include technical c…

We believe the uterosacral ligaments (USLs) are an essential key to resolving the dilemma of diagnosing endometriosis non-invasively. This editorial will utilise laparoscopic and ultrasonographic figures and videos, along with written descr…

Over recent years, there has been major advancement in the use of transvaginal ultrasound (TVU) for the pre-operative diagnosis and staging of deep endometriosis. The International Deep Endometriosis Analysis (IDEA) Consensus paper establis…

This report describes a case of a uterine cystic myometrial lesion in a 16-year-old adolescent girl presenting with pelvic pain and severe progressively worsening dysmenorrhoea. Patient's symptoms, ultrasound and MRI were suggestive of juve…

Abdominal wall endometrioma (AWE) is a rare condition (incidence 1% following caesarean section) with a significant variation in clinical symptoms, imaging findings and interval between initial procedure and diagnosis. We present two cases …

Ultrasound has become an invaluable tool for the workup and management of patients with symptoms and signs of endometriosis. Until the publication on the systematic approach to ultrasound in patients with suspected endometriosis by the Inte…

BACKGROUND: Women who suffer recurrent miscarriage are a heterogeneous group. Known causes include genetic and endocrine abnormalities, anti-phospholipid syndrome and autoimmune disease. Congenital uterine abnormalities (CUAs) such as bicor…

For some, endometriosis represents a chronic, waxing and waning disease that can be associated with significant morbidity. Endometriosis embodies a substantial number of gynaecological presentations for symptoms ranging from pelvic pain to …

Transvaginal sonography (TVS) is now established as a first line imaging tool of choice for the preoperative assessment of endometriosis in women planning laparoscopy for surgical treatment of endometriosis.1,2 The evolution of TVS in the p…

Urinary tract endometriosis has been reported to affect 1% of women with pelvic endometriosis,1 and approximately 10%of these women will have ureteric endometriosis.2 In a recent study, which included 627 women with histologically confirmed…

Transvaginal ultrasonography (TVS) is recommended as the first line imaging tool for the pre-operative diagnosis of posterior compartment deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE), with a sensitivity and specificity for the prediction of bowel …

Abstract Introduction : Endometriosis is a chronic peritoneal disease that may progress as a deep infiltrating lesion involving the posterior compartment of the pelvis. Efforts to improve pre‐operative knowledge of the location and extent o…

Historically, if a woman with chronic pelvic pain does not have an endometrioma or obvious adenomyosis on transvaginal ultrasound assessment, then she is deemed to have a “normal pelvis”. A significant proportion of these women will subsequ…

Objectives: To evaluate the accuracy of transvaginal sonography (TVS) in the diagnosis of deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) of the posterior compartment (rectovaginal septum, uterosacral ligaments, rectosigmoid colon, vagina) when under…

Office sonovaginography (SVG) challenges the concept of the "normal" pelvic ultrasound in women with chronic pelvic pain and suspected endometriosis. When positive for posterior compartment deep infiltrating endometriosis, with or without P…

Objectives : The aim of this study was to perform saline sonovaginography (SVG) in women with suspected rectovaginal endometriosis (RVE) in order to establish the thickness of the rectovaginal septum (RVS) in this population and to predict …