Improvements in the use of ultrasound in early pregnancy have resulted in improved diagnosis of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy. There are still, however, a significant number of women with a suspected abnormal pregnancy, where transvaginal ultrasound is unable to locate the pregnancy. The concern is the possibility of ectopic pregnancy. An alternative diagnostic tool is required and it has b...

OBJECTIVE To describe endometrial abnormalities on transvaginal ultrasonography and histopathology in women after quinacrine sterilization. METHODS It was an analytical cross sectional study conducted during February 2012 to April 2013. The sample size calculated at 95% confidence level was 540. Sampling technique used was simple random sampling. The medical history, examination, transvaginal...

INTRODUCTION Freehand ultrasound real-time elastography (RTE) is a simple technique allowing direct visualization of the elastogramme superimposed on the B-mode -image. The objective of RTE is to investigate stiffness and related parameters such as local tissue strain with a view to adding new information related to tissue morphology and architecture. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was a pilot stu...

OBJECTIVE The purpose was to determine the effect of vaginal pessaries in patients at risk for spontaneous preterm birth (SPB). STUDY DESIGN Transvaginal sonography (TVS) was longitudinally performed to measure cervical length (CL) in 258 singleton at risk for SPB and 282 twin pregnancies. Pairs with or without treatment were matched for gestational age and the CL at examination. RESULTS In...

OBJECTIVE To examine the potential value of routine measurement of cervical length in singleton low-risk pregnancies at 37 weeks of gestation in the prediction of onset and outcome of labor. METHODS Cervical length was measured by transvaginal sonography at 37 weeks in 1571 singleton low-risk pregnancies. Outcome measures were gestation at spontaneous onset of labor, post-term delivery, durat...

INTRODUCTION This document describes the business benefits associated with outsourcing software testing. It is not uncommon in the software industry for developers to test their own code or for organisations to establish a dedicated in‐house testing department. The following highlights some of the issues associated with this approach, describes how TVS manages a client engagement and how an out...

: We obtain common fixed points of four mappings satisfying a contractive type condition by demonstrating the convergence of their sequence of iterates in TVS valued cone metric spaces. Our results generalize some well-known recent results in the literature.