[Possibilities of using 3D ultrasonography in imaging of lower urinary pathways].

OBJECTIVE

To draw attention to the possibilities of using 3D-ultrasonography in imaging lower urinary pathways and vagina.

DESIGN

A pilot study.

SETTING

Mother and Child, Care Institute Prague.

METHODS

the examinations were performed in patients within the framework of a complex urogynecological examination following the urodynamic examination. The 3D analysis and reconstruction was performed in asymptomatic nulliparas, in patients with primary stress incontinence and also in women with relapse of stress incontinence. All reconstructions were performed by the author.

CONCLUSIONS

3D ultrasonography represents a noninvasive imaging method which, in indicated cases, may be suitable for completion of 2D ultrasound examination, representing the gold standard of lower urinary pathways imaging. By no means is the 3D ultrasonography a method competing with 2D ultrasonography. Both methods could suitably supplement each other especially in patients with relapsing stress incontinence after urogynecological operations performed.