ArticleObstetrics and gynecology2017
Cervical Evaluation: From Ancient Medicine to Precision Medicine.
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- First-Order Speckle Statistics for the Detection of Microstructural Anisotropy.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2025Article
- Elasticity of the Cervix in Relation to Uterus Position.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Predicting Spontaneous Labor beyond 39 Weeks among Low-Risk Expectantly Managed Pregnant Patients.American journal of perinatology · 2023Article
- Reliability of ultrasound versus digital vaginal examination in detecting cervical dilatation during labor: a diagnostic test accuracy systematic review.The ultrasound journal · 2021Review
- Shear wave dispersion as a potential biomarker for cervical remodeling during pregnancy: evidence from a non-human primate model.Frontiers in physics · 2021Article
- Aspiration technique-based device is more reliable in cervical stiffness assessment than digital palpation.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2020Article
- Labour and delivery: a clinician's perspective on a biomechanics problem.Interface focus · 2019Article
- Quantitative Ultrasound Parameters Based on the Backscattered Echo Power Signal as Biomarkers of Cervical Remodeling: A Longitudinal Study in the Pregnant Rhesus Macaque.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2019Article
- Quantitative Ultrasound Biomarkers Based on Backscattered Acoustic Power: Potential for Quantifying Remodeling of the Human Cervix during Pregnancy.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2019Article
- Quantitative assessment of cervical softening during pregnancy in the Rhesus macaque with shear wave elasticity imaging.Physics in medicine and biology · 2018Article
- Detection of Changes in Cervical Softness Using Shear Wave Speed in Early versus Late Pregnancy: An in Vivo Cross-Sectional Study.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2018Article
- New techniques in evaluation of the cervix.Seminars in perinatology · 2017Review
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Abstract
Since ancient times, cervical assessment for predicting timing of delivery has relied primarily on digital (subjective) assessment of dilatation, softening, and length. To date, transvaginal ultrasound cervical length is the only one of these parameters that meets criteria for a biomarker; no objective, quantitative measure of cervical dilatation or softening has gained clinical acceptance. This review discusses how the cervix has been assessed from ancient times to the present day and how a precision medicine approach could improve understanding of not only the cervix, but also parturition in general.
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