Posterior compartment prolapse on two-dimensional and three-dimensional pelvic floor ultrasound: The distinction between true rectocele, perineal hypermobility and enterocele

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-77

  Dietz, H P ^a,b   Steensma, A B ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound; Enterocele; Prolapse; Rectocele; Rectovaginal septum; Translabial ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENTEROCELE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICTURITION; PARITY; PERINEUM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOCELE; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTOVAGINAL SEPTAL DEFECT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; AGE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DELIVERY; ECHOGRAPHY; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIS FLOOR; RECTUM PROLAPSE; UTERUS PROLAPSE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC FLOOR; PERINEUM; RECTAL PROLAPSE; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 27244451053     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.1930     Document Type: Article

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