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2023 FEB 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Investigators publish new report on Cancer Research. According to news reporting out [...]

New consensus guidelines from a multispecialty working group of the Pelvic Floor Disorders Consortium (PFDC) clear up inconsistencies in the use of magnetic resonance defecography (MRD) and provide universal recommendations [...]

The digital rectal examination (DRE) is an uncomfortable procedure that adds time to the routine pelvic examination. Patients may postpone or defer their pelvic examination because of this discomfort. Although [...]

The bimanual pelvic examination is considered an important element in the evaluation of pelvic and abdominal complaints in women, including emergency conditions such as ectopic pregnancy, pelvic inflammatory disease, and [...], * Objective To test the reliability of bimanual pelvic examinations performed in emergency departments by emergency medicine physicians. * Design Prospective observational study; 2 examiners each recorded various pelvic examination findings on 186 patients. * Setting A private university hospital and a public county hospital staffed by attending emergency medicine physicians who share an emergency medicine residency program. * Subjects Senior resident (3rd or 4th year) and attending emergency physicians. * Main outcome measures Percentage of agreement and percentage of positive agreement for cervical motion tenderness, uterine tenderness, adnexal tenderness, adnexal mass, and uterine size (within 2 cm). * Results The agreement ranged between 71% and 84%, but the percentage of positive agreement was much lower, ranging from 17% to 33%. Agreement for uterine size, within 2 cm, was 60%. * Conclusion The findings of bimanual pelvic examinations performed by emergency physicians in an emergency department have poor interexaminer reliability.

No doubt you've react or heard about the patient at George Washington University Hospital who objected to having a fully supervised medical student examine her while she was under general [...]

Pelvic examinations in adolescents This method of performing pelvic examinations in adolescents is the one used and recommended by John M. Goldenring, MD, MPH, former assistant professor of pediatrics and [...]

Physicians should perform routine screening of all sexually active women at increased risk for gonorrhea, because of the high risk for pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, and chronic pelvic pain [...]

To more easily visualize a larger woman's cervix, use a regular or extra-large Graves speculum and ask the patient to relax her knees out to the sides as much as [...]

BIG SKY, MONT. -- The gynecologic care of young girls and adolescents requires a different approach than used for adults, Dr. Joseph S. Sanfilippo said at an ob.gyn. update sponsored [...]

KAUAI, HAWAII -- The best tool for detecting ovarian cancer is your suspicion. Family history CA 125 testing, and ultrasound are ineffective or impractical for screening the general population. Your [...]

Campbell KA, Shaughnessy AF. Diagnostic utility of the digital rectal examination as part of the routine pelvic examination. J Fam Pract 1998; 46:165-7. Clinical question What is the diagnostic yield [...]