20/03/2025
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Special thanks to: Ru Yanhui, Sheng Xuan, Yin Hong, Department of Ultrasound of Shandong Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Medical Imaging Center of Shandong Maternal and Child Health Hospital.
The levator ani muscle is believed to be an important support for lower urinary tract function and pelvic organ. In recent studies, it is shown that major levator trauma happens in 15–35% of vaginally parous women, when using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and transperineal ultrasound for the diagnosis[1,2]. The main methods of clinical assessment of levator trauma include transvaginal palpation, MRI, and pelvic floor ultrasound. Generally speaking, MRI has limitations such as cost and accessibility, and the fact that the imaging is static, not dynamic [3]. Pelvic floor ultrasound, on the contrary, has the advantages of shorter examination time, more economic, real-time display, intuitive and multi-plane display of the levator trauma location, etc. It has become an increasingly important method to assess levator trauma.
The main scanning methods include transperineal/intraluminal 2D scanning in parasagittal view, 3D/4D volume imaging, and tomographic ultrasound called iPage+.
Female pelvic floor anatomy, which developed since the early 20th century, has had a variety of theories, including integral theory, three levels of vaginal support theory, "hammock hypothesis", and three-chamber system. Supporting structures such as pelvic floor muscles, fascia and ligament play an...
