OBJECTIVES To assess the acceptability to women of antenatal transvaginal ultrasound scans; to compare the characteristics of women who accept the offer of a transvaginal scan with those who decline; to establish the prevalence of any psychological morbidity associated with the scan. METHODS The study was a cross-sectional questionnaire survey. Women were recruited from two hospitals in South...

Introduction: The appropriate ultrasound technique to assess the maternal cervical length in women at low risk of preterm birth is yet to be established. This study aimed to determine the accuracy of different ultrasound approaches for measuring the maternal cervix in patients between 17 and 22 weeks gestation. Methods: The prospective study recruited 50 patients who were at a low risk of prete...

1 Associate Professor, Department of obstetrics and gynecology, Kannur Medical College, Anjarakandy 2 Professor, Department of obstetrics and gynecology, Kannur Medical College, Anjarakandy ABSTRACT Aim: To study the endometrial pathology in patients with perimenopausal and postmenopausal bleeding by using transvaginal ultrasound, hysteroscopy and histopathology To compare the sonographically m...

OBJECTIVE To determine what constitutes normal cervical changes during the second half of pregnancy in parous women delivering at term. DESIGN The study comprises 21 healthy, pregnant parous women who all gave birth at term. They were examined with transvaginal ultrasound every two weeks from 24 gestational weeks until delivery. Cervical length and width were measured. The inner cervical os w...

The case featured in this issue of Vikalpa discusses the journey embarked on by the top management of Lucas-TVS Limited in 1985 to make their firm a world-class manufacturing organization. The company's oldest plant at Padi, Chennai acted as a test bed for several of their initiatives. The case describes the steps that Lucas-TVS management took to implement this change process in manufacturing ...