Imaging for acute pelvic pain in pregnancy

Acute pelvic pain in pregnancy presents diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Standard imaging techniques need to be adapted to reduce harm to the foetus from X-rays because of their teratogenic and carcinogenic potential. Ultrasound remains the primary imaging investigation of the pregnant abdomen...

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Main Authors:	Masselli, Gabriele, Brunelli, Roberto, Monti, Riccardo, Guida, Marianna, Laghi, Francesca, Casciani, Emanuele, Polettini, Elisabetta, Gualdi, Gianfranco
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3999369/

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spelling	pubmed-39993692014-04-25 Imaging for acute pelvic pain in pregnancy Masselli, Gabriele Brunelli, Roberto Monti, Riccardo Guida, Marianna Laghi, Francesca Casciani, Emanuele Polettini, Elisabetta Gualdi, Gianfranco Review Acute pelvic pain in pregnancy presents diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Standard imaging techniques need to be adapted to reduce harm to the foetus from X-rays because of their teratogenic and carcinogenic potential. Ultrasound remains the primary imaging investigation of the pregnant abdomen. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been shown to be useful in the diagnosis of gynaecological and obstetric problems during pregnancy and in the setting of acute abdomen during pregnancy. MRI overcomes some of the limitations of ultrasound, mainly the size of the gravid uterus. MRI poses theoretical risks to the foetus and care must be taken to minimise these with the avoidance of contrast agents. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3999369/ /pubmed/24535757 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13244-014-0314-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2014 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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author	Masselli, Gabriele Brunelli, Roberto Monti, Riccardo Guida, Marianna Laghi, Francesca Casciani, Emanuele Polettini, Elisabetta Gualdi, Gianfranco
spellingShingle	Masselli, Gabriele Brunelli, Roberto Monti, Riccardo Guida, Marianna Laghi, Francesca Casciani, Emanuele Polettini, Elisabetta Gualdi, Gianfranco Imaging for acute pelvic pain in pregnancy
author_facet	Masselli, Gabriele Brunelli, Roberto Monti, Riccardo Guida, Marianna Laghi, Francesca Casciani, Emanuele Polettini, Elisabetta Gualdi, Gianfranco
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title	Imaging for acute pelvic pain in pregnancy
title_short	Imaging for acute pelvic pain in pregnancy
title_full	Imaging for acute pelvic pain in pregnancy
title_fullStr	Imaging for acute pelvic pain in pregnancy
title_full_unstemmed	Imaging for acute pelvic pain in pregnancy
title_sort	imaging for acute pelvic pain in pregnancy
description	Acute pelvic pain in pregnancy presents diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Standard imaging techniques need to be adapted to reduce harm to the foetus from X-rays because of their teratogenic and carcinogenic potential. Ultrasound remains the primary imaging investigation of the pregnant abdomen. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been shown to be useful in the diagnosis of gynaecological and obstetric problems during pregnancy and in the setting of acute abdomen during pregnancy. MRI overcomes some of the limitations of ultrasound, mainly the size of the gravid uterus. MRI poses theoretical risks to the foetus and care must be taken to minimise these with the avoidance of contrast agents.
publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
publishDate	2014
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3999369/
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Imaging for acute pelvic pain in pregnancy

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