BACKGROUND
Lacerations of the anal sphincter or injury to sphincter innervation during childbirth are major causes of fecal incontinence, but the incidence and importance of occult sphincter damage… (More)
OBJECTIVES
To determine (i) risk factors in the development of third degree obstetric tears and (ii) the success of primary sphincter repair.
DESIGN
(i) Retrospective analysis of obstetric… (More)
OBJECTIVE
To establish the effect of childbirth on pudendal nerve function and identify obstetric factors associated with such damage.
DESIGN
A prospective investigational study.
SETTING… (More)
To determine the normal and anatomy in vivo, and endosonography and manometry were performed in 93 nulliparous females, and endosonography alone in 21 healthy males. Endosonography did not reveal any… (More)
In a clinico-pathological study of malignant disease of the ovary in the former North East Metropolitan Region, malignant transformation of benign cystic teratoma has emerged as the commonest… (More)
The endosonographic anatomy of the anal sphincters was studied by in vivo and in vitro correlation with anatomical dissection. Fourteen fresh anorectal specimens (eight abdominoperineal resection,… (More)
PURPOSE
Although anal endosonography provides clear images of anal sphincters, the probe in the anal canal may distort epithelial structures and sphincter muscles may be compressed, producing… (More)
The oestrogen and progestogen receptor status in ovarian cancers from 72 patients was correlated with histological type, primary or secondary origin and peripheral hormone concentrations. Changes… (More)
Radioimmunoscintigraphy (RIS) can be used in the preoperative localisation of ovarian carcinoma to demonstrate uptake of radiolabelled monoclonal antibodies into neoplastic tissue. The tissue uptake… (More)