ReviewInsights into imaging2019
Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of the female pelvic floor-a pictorial review.
Review in Insights into imaging, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.
- Standardizing MR defecography referral and reporting: a multidisciplinary Delphi consensus.La Radiologia medica · 2026Article
- Functional and Anatomical Significance of Patulous Anus.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2026Article
- Assessment of risk factors for pelvic organ prolapse using dynamic MRI combined with clinical data.Insights into imaging · 2026Article
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- Correlation between Plane Assessment of Prolapse Degree and Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification Scores after Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Female Pelvic Organ Prolapse.Gynecologic and obstetric investigation · 2026Article
- Artificial Intelligence in the Diagnosis and Imaging-Based Assessment of Pelvic Organ Prolapse: A Scoping Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- MR Defecography Improves Diagnosis of Postoperative Pelvic Floor Dysfunction After Gynecological Surgery.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Requirements and Value Elicitation for a High-Fidelity Pelvic Floor Simulator for Physiotherapists: Mixed Methods Study.JMIR human factors · 2025Article
- The influence of sacrocolporectopexy on pelvic anatomy assessed in an upright position using MRI.Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland · 2025Article
- The Muscle Cells in Pelvic Floor Dysfunctions: Systematic Review.Muscles (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Sarcopenia in Women with Anorectal Dysfunctions-A Female Sarcopelvic Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- The "Ins and Outs" of Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Female Pelvic Organ Prolapse.International urogynecology journal · 2024Review
- Volumetric segmentation analysis of the levator ani muscle using magnetic resonance imaging in pelvic floor function assessmentDiagnostic and interventional radiology (Ankara, Turkey) · 2024Article
- Assessment of pelvic organ prolapse with the Pelvic Inclination Correction System: defining the normal range and threshold to pathology.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2024Article
- MR defecography in assessing stress urinary incontinence with or without symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse.World journal of urology · 2024Article
- Imaging of pelvic floor disorders involving the posterior compartment on dynamic MR defaecography.SA journal of radiology · 2024Article
- Assessment of defecation disorders using high-resolution MRI-defecography.Biomedical papers of the Medical Faculty of the University Palacky, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia · 2023Article
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- [Imaging of the pelvic floor (MR defecography) : The surgeon's perspective].Radiologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Review
- Diagnostic performance of dynamic MR defecography in assessment of dyssynergic defecation.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2023Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Pelvic floor dysfunctions represent a range of functional disorders that frequently occur in adult women, carrying a significant burden on the quality of life, and its incidence tends to increase attending to the expected aging of the population. Pelvic floor dysfunctions can manifest as incontinence, constipation, and prolapsed pelvic organs. Since pelvic floor weakness is frequently generalized and clinically underdiagnosed, imaging evaluation is of major importance, especially prior to surgical correction. Given some interobserver variability of soft-tissue measurements, MR defecography allows a noninvasive, radiation-free, multiplanar dynamic evaluation of the three pelvic compartments simultaneously and with high spatial and temporal resolution. Both static/anatomic and dynamic/functional findings are important, since pelvic disorders can manifest as whole pelvic floor weakness/dysfunction or as an isolated or single compartment disorder. Imaging has a preponderant role in accessing pelvic floor disorders, and dynamic MR defecography presents as a reliable option, being able to evaluate the entire pelvic floor for optimal patient management before surgery. The purpose of this article is to address the female pelvic anatomy and explain the appropriate MR Defecography protocol, along with all the anatomic points, lines, angles, and measurements needed for a correct interpretation, to later focus on the different disorders of the female pelvic floor, illustrated with MR defecography images, highlighting the role of this technique in accessing these pathologic conditions.
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