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Systematic Evaluation of Women With Suspected Endometriosis Using a 5‐Domain Sonographically Based Approach
Author(s) -
Menakaya Uche,
Reid Shan,
Infante Fernando,
Condous George
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of ultrasound in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1550-9613
pISSN - 0278-4297
DOI - 10.7863/ultra.34.6.937
Subject(s) - medicine , endometriosis , transvaginal sonography , pelvis , protocol (science) , pelvic endometriosis , pouch , female pelvis , radiology , gynecology , surgery , pathology , pregnancy , alternative medicine , biology , genetics
In recent years, knowledge has evolved regarding the role of transvaginal sonography in the assessment of the pouch of Douglas status and the preoperative prediction of extraovarian endometriosis in specific locations. Despite these advances in transvaginal sonography, the challenge of developing a comprehensive, cost‐effective, and reproducible preoperative classification system for endometriosis remains. Critical to this classification system should be a sonographically based evaluation protocol that is systematic, evidence based, and reproducible with clearly defined end points. To date, no structured evaluation protocol exists for the assessment of the pelvis in women with suspected endometriosis. In this article, we propose a domain‐based evaluation protocol for the assessment of women with suspected endometriosis using transvaginal sonography.