title: Transvaginal ultrasonographic diagnosis of adenomyosis in female patients suffering from uterine fibromatosis.
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.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: La Torre
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Scarpellini
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fusaro
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Silvestri
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Coacci
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Cosmi
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018231:Leiomyomatosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods; D014591:Uterine Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014621:Vagina