OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of transvaginal power Doppler sonography with spectral Doppler analysis as an aid in preoperatively distinguishing primary ovarian carcinoma and metastatic carcinoma to the ovary (Krukenberg tumors). METHODS Fifty women with ovarian disease were preoperatively examined with transvaginal power Doppler sonography. Six basic parame...

Treatment of cervical incompetence by cerclage and other methods has yet to be standardized, as its diagnosis is not uniformly accepted. Its diagnosis, particularly in the African setting, is mostly based on past obstetric history of pregnancy losses, while in developed centres; ultrasound diagnosis is increasingly being used. The mainstay of treatment in developing countries is cervical cercla...

Obstetric fistula usually originates from obstructed labor or, less often, from invasive maneuvers on the genital tract or the pregnant uterus. Overall, it is a rare finding in the obstetric practice of high income countries. In this report we describe the case of a successful term pregnancy in a patient with a history of recurrent late miscarriage due to a large cervical fistula of traumatic o...

Objectives: A panel of 14 physicians practicing medicine in the United States with expertise in radiology, obstetrics and gynecology, gynecologic oncology, hysteroscopy, epidemiology, and pathology was convened by the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound to discuss the role of sonography in women with postmenopausal bleeding. Broad objectives of this conference were (1) to advance understandin...

The role of imaging in female infertility has undergone a revolution over the past few decades .Sonography plays an integral role in the evaluation of gynecologic disease. It can determine the organ or site of abnormality and provide a diagnosis or short differential in the vast majority of patients. Both the transabdominal and transvaginal approaches are now well –established techniques for as...

Transvaginal color flow and pulsed Doppler sonography has shown promise in the evaluation and characterization of adnexal masses and may ultimately play a role in ovarian cancer screening.',' A relative increase in the diastolic flow in malignant lesions has been previously reported. Pathologic evidence suggests that this phenomenon reflects the paucity of smooth muscle within tumor vessels alo...