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Pelvic Floor Disorders

Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, 2019
Pelvic floor disorders commonly affect women and may cause distress and difficulty with daily functions and self-image. Urinary incontinence may present as stress incontinence, urgency incontinence, or in some combination (mixed incontinence). Symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse (POP) occurs when the patient is bothered by the sensation of a herniation ...
Ellen R. Solomon, Meadow M. Good
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PELVIC FLOOR ULTRASOUND

Current Surgery Reports, 2006
Female pelvic floor dysfunction encompasses a number of prevalent clinical conditions, including female pelvic organ prolapse, urinary and fecal incontinence, obstructed defecation, and sexual dysfunction. In most cases, neither etiology nor pathophysiology are well understood.
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Pelvic Floor Disorders

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1994
The pelvic floor conditions form a diverse array of primarily functional conditions that are rarely life-threatening but may be severely debilitating. Reassurance combined with initial medical and dietary management of most of these conditions greatly ameliorates the suffering of most patients.
Jeffrey W. Milsom, Tracy L. Hull
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Pelvic Floor Imaging

Radiology, 2001
A greater awareness of the therapies now available for pelvic floor dysfunction has increased demand for specialized imaging of this region. Some of the techniques required are available at relatively few centers, and the purpose of this review is to introduce the emerging subspecialty of pelvic floor imaging to a more general readership.
Jaap Stoker   +2 more
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Pelvic Floor Physiology

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1988
Pelvic floor physiology is poorly understood. The funnel shape of the pelvic floor and anal canal is uniquely developed to provide discriminatory continence of gas, liquid, and solid. Proximally, the pelvic floor consists of the pubococcygeus and iliococcygeus muscles.
David A. Cherry, David A. Rothenberger
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The Pelvic Floor

2018
The pelvic floor is often forgotten when evaluating and treating hip dysfunction. This chapter sets out to describe the pelvic floor’s anatomy, function, treatment, and role in posterior hip dysfunction.
Cyndi Hill   +2 more
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MRI of the Pelvic Floor

2010
The pelvic floor is a complex anatomic and functional unit. Over the past few years MR imaging has gained increasing acceptance as imaging modality for evaluation of the pelvic floor. Using static T2-weighted sequences, the morphology of the pelvic floor can be visualized in great detail. A multicoil array and a rapid half-Fourier T2-weighted, balanced
Reiner, C S, Weishaupt, D
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The Pelvic Floor

Physiotherapy, 2001
Summary The pelvic floor forms the inferior boundary of the abdomino-pelvic cavity. The co-ordinated action of the muscles which surround this cavity generates intra-abdominal pressure, with the pelvic floor muscles acting before the pressure rise to maintain organ support and urinary and faecal continence.
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Pelvic floor ultrasound: a review [PDF]

open access: possibleAmerican Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2010
Female pelvic floor dysfunction encompasses a number of prevalent conditions and includes pelvic organ prolapse, urinary and fecal incontinence, obstructed defecation, and sexual dysfunction. In most cases neither etiology nor pathophysiology are well understood. Imaging has great potential to enhance both research and clinical management capabilities,
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Pelvic Floor Reconstruction

European Urology, 2002
Abstract The female pelvic floor is an anatomic and functional complex of three inter-related systems—vesico-urethral, genital and ano-rectal. Diseases and interventions affecting any of these compartments also impact on the others, and diagnostic and outcome evaluations cannot be restricted to one system.
Paul Hilton, F Haab, Walter Artibani
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