Open AccessTHE PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS OF PELVIC CONGESTION BY MEANS OF 133 XENON INJECTED INTO THE CERVICAL MYOMETRIUM
Author(s) -
Pellegri Pier Paolo,
Montanari Giorgio Dino,
Renzo G. C.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
acta obstetricia et gynecologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1600-0412
pISSN - 0001-6349
DOI - 10.3109/00016348109155459
Subject(s) - medicine , myometrium , pelvic pain , xenon , uterus , radiology , nuclear medicine , surgery , physics , atomic physics
. The pelvic congestion syndrome is an ill‐defined entity and despite clinical signs and symptoms diagnosis is almost always presumptive. We studied the clearance of 133 Xenon injected into the cervical myometrium, the aim being to evaluate the usefulness of the method as a diagnostic tool in this condition. At the interoperative controls signs of pelvic congestion were present in 40 patients and absent in 36. The mean cervico‐myometrial blood flow was 14.28±6.46 ml/100 g/min in the first group and 25.13±7.07 ml/100 g/min in the second (p>0.01). We obtained false negative responses in 6 cases, false positive ones in 2 and doubtful ones in 16 cases.