IMR Press / CEOG / Volume 23 / Issue 4 / pii/1996041

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Original Research

Transvaginal ultrasonographic diagnosis of adenomyosis in female patients suffering from uterine fibromatosis

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1 II Inst. Clin. Ob./Gyn., University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 1996, 23(4), 195–197;
Published: 10 December 1996
Abstract

Adenomyosis is an underestimated pathology frequently responsible of unknown origin pelvic pain and uterine enlargement. It is hyperestrinic condition with poor specific symptomatology and preoperative diagnostic tools are very few. The most important of them, ultrasound, has improved its diagnostic capacity with the introduction of transvaginal way of examination. However, for the ultrasound resemblance, the common etiopathogenetic origin and the symptomatologic likeness between adenomyosis and uterine leiomyomatosis, a problem still open is the differential diagnosis between these two pathologies especially when both are present in the same subject. In our study where the preoperative ultrasound was followed by surgical finding, we try to give some ultrasonographical guidelines to discern among these two pathologic conditions.

Keywords
Adenomyosis
Transvaginal ultrasound
Uterine leiomyomatosis
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