PURPOSE To determine the relation between pelvic varicose veins and lower extremity venous insufficiency in women with chronic pelvic pain. METHODS AND MATERIALS This study was done in Yuzuncu Yil University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiology, with patients who were referred for abdominal and pelvic imaging between January 2007 and April 2008. A total of 1029 women with pelvic imagi...

Objective: To investigate the clinical efficacy of modified transperitoneal laparoscopic approach combined with transvaginal access without omental flap to repair complex vesicovaginal fistula after total hysterectomy. Methods: A total of 68 patients with high-up vesicovaginal fistula were retrospectively reviewed. In 15 cases, the surgery was completed using the laparoscopic transabdominal app...

The most serious congenital abnormalities are those involving the central nervous system (CNS). Ultrasound (US) examination is a safe and noninvasive method for detecting these anomalies during pregnancy. Objective: To find out frequency of fetal detected on ultrasonography. Methods: It was cross sectional study conducted 385 pregnant women using Convenient Sampling Technique. patients were ref...

Abstract Introduction Cesarean scar pregnancy (CSP) is an increasing clinical condition that causes serious maternal morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to evaluate if inflammation markers measured by hemogram can aid in the diagnosis of CSP. Materials Methods A total 86 patients were included study. The cases divided as CSP (n: 42) normal (NP) 44). At time admission, peripheral blood neu...

BACKGROUND A Spigelian hernia is a congenital defect in the transversus aponeurosis fascia. Traditionally, an anterior hernioplasty was used to repair these defects. This study aimed to document our experience with laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal repair for Spigelian hernia. METHODS Eight patients underwent laparoscopic transabdominal Spigelian hernia repair. All patients underwent ...

Placenta previa can be difficult to diagnose with transabdominal sonography during the third trimester of pregnancy, because of difficulties in imaging the cervix late in pregnancy. Although transperineal sonography offers an additional view of the cervix, its value in the diagnosis of placenta previa has not been studied. Accordingly, we performed transperineal sonography on 164 patients who h...