NOVEL ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUES IN THE ASSESSMENT OF FEMALE URETHRA COMPLEX IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF URINARY INCONTINENCE

Purpose: Urinary incontinence in females is becoming an ever-more critical medical and social problem. Traditional routine imaging methods such as transvaginal, transrectal or translabial ultrasound, or MRI with endorectal/endovaginal coil, have a lot of disadvantages. Better assessment of the urethral complex is possible with a novel ultrasound technique: using transvaginal biplane transducers with the ultrasound beam formation perpendicular/parallel to the urethra, and 3D data acquisition. Aim The aim of the study was to assess the ultrasound 3D morphology of the urethral complex in nulliparous and multiparous…