title: The use of transrectal longitudinal real-time ultrasonography in urodynamics.
abstract: A total of 63 combined transrectal ultrasonographic and urodynamic studies was performed to evaluate the voiding dysfunction in 49 spinal cord injury patients and 7 other patients. Ultrasonography provided excellent real-time imaging of the bladder neck, prostatic urethra, prostate and external sphincter, and allowed for accurate diagnosis of detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia, detrusor-bladder neck dyssynergia, prostatic hypertrophy and bladder neck strictures. In addition to offering these capabilities, ultrasonography is less expensive than x-ray and it does not involve exposure of either the patient or examiner to radiation. However, it does not provide a means to detect vesicoureteral reflux.
authors.affiliation: Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shabsigh
authors.forename: I J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Fishman
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krebs
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012007:Rectum; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D014554:Urination; D014563:Urodynamics; D014566:Urogenital System / Q000503:physiopathology; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology