Authors: J Cassadó Garriga L Quintas Marques A Pessarrodona Isern E López Quesada M Rodriguez Carballeira A Badia Carrasco
Publish Date: 2015/03/31
Volume: 26, Issue: 9, Pages: 1327-1332
Abstract
Forty nulliparous and premenopausal women were evaluated at the Gynecological Unit of a tertiary hospital All women underwent a translabial ultrasound US with 3D power Doppler Pubic insertion of the puborectalis/pubovisceralis muscle was assessed in the axial plane and vascularization index VI flow index FI and vascularizationflow index VFI were calculated bilaterally Volumes were analyzed offline by two independent observers and interobserver agreement and correlation between variables was calculatedA high statistically significant correlation was found between the three US indices on each side p 0005 No correlation was found between the US index and either of the demographic parameters of body mass index BMI p 0241 or age p 0398 The degree of correlation between the same index on the different sides was not statistically significant
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