Role of ultrasonographic parameters for predicting tubal involvement in infertile patients affected by endometriosis: A retrospective cohort study.

Introduction: Transvaginal ultrasound is fundamental for the mapping of endometriosis, and the imaging criteria have been clearly described for different organs study. However, no specific ultrasonographic signs of tubal endometriosis have been reported, with the exception of hydrosalpinx, which is the expression of an extreme tubal damage and obstruction. The detection of tubal pathology in infertile patients is fundamental, therefore the aim of the study was to evaluate incidence of tubal endometriosis in infertile patients, and to analyze ultrasonographic signs useful for detection of this condition.

Comparison of Virtual Ultrasonographic Hysteroscopy with Conventional Hysteroscopy in the Workup of Patients Who Are Infertile.

Study Objective: To compare the tolerability and diagnostic accuracy of virtual ultrasonographic hysteroscopy (VUH) with that of conventional diagnostic outpatient hysteroscopy in the workup of patients who are infertile.

Design: A single-center, retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology, and Minimally Invasive Pelvic Surgery Unit of Sacred Heart Hospital Don Calabria in Negrar, Italy.

Sonographic Differential Diagnosis in Deep Infiltrating Endometriosis: The Bowel.

Up to one-third of fertile-age women with severe endometriosis suffer from colonic involvement. Transvaginal ultrasonography has become a first-line diagnostic tool for the study of the pelvis and more specifically for the diagnosis of pelvic endometriosis. Accuracy of pelvic ultrasound for deep endometriosis increases with operator experience, but the difficulties in the differential diagnosis with diseases that can afflict the bowel tract remain a challenge.

Estimation of birthweight by measurement of fetal thigh soft-tissue thickness improves the detection of macrosomic fetuses.

The accuracy of sonographic estimation of birthweight in suspected macrosomic fetuses is compromised by the imprecision of the biometrical measurements. This prospective study evaluated the performance of an equation based on linear measurement of the soft tissue above the external side of the fetal femur. The performance of this algorithm was compared with two classical algorithms.

Transvaginal sonography for preoperative assessment of deep endometriosis.

Purpose: To determinate transvaginal scan (TVS) accuracy in the preoperative evaluation of deep endometriosis in a large cohort of patients with subsequent laparoscopic assessment.

Methods: A retrospective study was performed in a tertiary referral center for endometriosis. Transvaginal scan reports were retrieved from an electronic database of all patients who underwent laparoscopy for pelvic pain or infertility in 2009.