BACKGROUND The sacroiliac joint is a widely described source of low back pain. Therapeutic approaches to relieve pain include the application of pelvic belts. However, the effects of pelvic belts on sacroiliac joint ligaments as potential pain generators are mostly unknown. OBJECTIVES The aim of our study was to analyze the influence of pelvic belts on ligament load by means of a computer mod...

Purpose: Pelvic floor muscle dysfunction is a common cause of constipation. This dysfunction does not respond to current treatments of constipation. Thus, it is important to identify this type of dysfunction and the role of these muscles in constipation. The purpose of the present study was to review the previously published studies concerning the role of pelvic floor muscles dysfunction ...

The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of placement of pelvic binders and to determine whether circumferential compression at the level of the greater trochanters is the best method of reducing a symphyseal diastasis. Patients were identified by a retrospective review of all pelvic radiographs performed at a military hospital over a period of 30 months. We analysed any pelvic radiogra...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to compare the classical method and Sectioning and Extensively Examining the Fimbriated End Protocol (SEE-FIM) in detecting microscopic lesions in fallopian tubes with gynecological lesions. METHODS From a total of 1,118 cases, 582 with various parts of both fallopian tubes sampled in three-ring-shape sections and 536 sampled with the SEE-FIM protoco...

We report the case of a patient with pain and an abdominal palpable mass whose tests showed a right pelvic kidney with a 4-cm stone in the renal pelvis. We describe the successful management through laparoscopic assisted percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) in ectopic pelvic kidney, stressing that this method is a minimally invasive therapeutic option in such cases.

Introduction: Reconstruction of the hip after the resection of a pelvic tumor is a challenging procedure in orthopaedic oncology. The use of massive allograft reconstruction may restore the pelvic architecture and provide a suitable bone stock for acetabular prosthetic implant. The major complication is deep infection whatever the method of reconstruction applied; however, high mechanical compl...

Objective: This article aims to review pelvic inflammatory disease management during the coronavirus 2019 pandemic Method: We conducted a search for scientific articles through PubMed and Google Scholar, using terminologies of “PID AND COVID-19”, “Pelvic Inflammatory Disease”; Disease Management Pandemic” in English Indonesian from 2019-2020. Result: There were total 25 Scholar within 2019-2020...

Digital pelvic radiographs are used to identify the locations of implanted iodine-125 seeds and their numbers after insertion. However, it is difficult and laborious to visually identify and count all implanted seeds on the pelvic radiographs within a short time. Therefore, our purpose in this research was to develop an automated method for estimation of the number of implanted seeds based on t...

adult ureteroceles are generally known as simple ureteroceles with minimal obstructive effects 1 that can usually be managed endoscopically. such pathology presented with acute abdominal pain and fever in a 32-year-old man with left renal agenesia, a cranial blind left ureter and left obstructed ureterocele. the retained secretions were suppurative.