Reproducibility in pelvic floor biometric parameters of nulliparous women assessed by translabial three-dimensional ultrasound using Omniview reformatting technique

• Autor(a) principal: Katalin Jarmy-Di Bella, Zsuzsanna Ilona [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Araujo Junior, Edward [UNIFESP], Rodrigues, Claudinei Alves [UNIFESP], Torelli, Luiza [UNIFESP], Martins, Wellington P. [UNIFESP], Moron, Antonio Fernandes [UNIFESP], Castello Girao, Manoel Joao Batista [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.11152/mu.2013.2066.183.zsu; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/51105
• topic: Pelvic floor; nulliparous; rendering mode; three-dimensional ultrasound; omniView (R)

Aim: To assess the reproducibility of pelvic floor biometric parameters by translabial three-dimensional ultrasound compared with the OmniView (R) reformatting technique. Material and methods: We performed a prospective cross-sectional study involving 47 nulliparous women without symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunction. The hiatal area and right pubovisceral muscle width measurements were performed in the axial plane using both 3D ultrasound in the rendering mode and OmniView (R) techniques. To determine the occurrence of standardized error between examiners and the two sonographic methods, the paired t-test was used. The intra-and inter-observer reliability and agreement were estimated by concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) and limits of agreement, respectively. Results: We did not observe significant statistical differences among both measurements performed by the first examiner, both examiners and both methods in the assessment of the hiatal area