Lesson learned and dispelled myths: three-dimensional imaging of the human vagina

Kurt T Barnhart; E Scott Pretorius; Daniel Malamud

doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.01.016

Lesson learned and dispelled myths: three-dimensional imaging of the human vagina

Fertil Steril. 2004 May;81(5):1383-4. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.01.016.

Authors

Kurt T Barnhart¹, E Scott Pretorius, Daniel Malamud

Affiliation

¹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Senior Scholar, Center Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. kbarnhart@mail.obgyn.upenn.edu

PMID: 15136106
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.01.016

Abstract

Three-dimensional imaging of the human vagina demonstrates that the cross section can be a "W," rather than an "H," and that intravaginal gel can ascend into the endocervix and presumably into the endometrium.

MeSH terms

Female
Humans
Imaging, Three-Dimensional*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Vagina / anatomy & histology*