Pelvimetry

Pelvimetry is the assessment of the female pelvis in relation to the birth of a baby. Traditional obstetrical services relied heavily on pelvimetry in the conduct of delivery in order to decide if natural or operative vaginal delivery was possible or if and when to use a cesarean section. With the increased safety of modern cesarean section and increased medico legal concerns about use of operative vaginal delivery, the threshold to perform a cesarean section has decreased and the need for pelvimetry diminished. (From the Wikpedia article Pelvimetry.)

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Recent Publications on Pelvimetry:
Three-dimensional pelvimetry by computed tomography. PURPOSE: This study was undertaken to assess the agreement of computed...	30th October, 2009	Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University	Radiol Med. 2009 Aug;114(5):827-34. Epub 2009 Jun 23. DOI Direct Link
[Evaluation of decisional elements of vaginal delivery in case of breech presentation in 19 university hospitals in France] BACKGROUND: Recently, a Belgo-French study led by PREMODA group showed...	23rd October, 2009	Pole d'obstetrique, hopital Jeanne-de-Flandre, universite Lille II, 2,	J Gynecol Obstet Biol Reprod (Paris). 2009 Sep;38(5):411-20. Epub 2009 Jun DOI Direct Link
Effect of bony pelvic dimensions measured by preoperative magnetic resonance imaging on performing robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of bony pelvic dimensions measured by...	29th September, 2009	Department of Urology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital,	BJU Int. 2009 Sep;104(5):664-8. Epub 2009 May 18. DOI Direct Link
Measurements from image-based three dimensional pelvic floor reconstruction: a study of inter- and intraobserver reliability. PURPOSE: To describe inter- and intraobserver reliability of 3D...	23rd September, 2009	University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Division of	J Magn Reson Imaging. 2009 Aug;30(2):344-50. DOI Direct Link
Vaginal delivery of breech presentation. OBJECTIVES: To review the physiology of breech birth; to discern the risks...	16th September, 2009		J Obstet Gynaecol Can. 2009 Jun;31(6):557-66, 567-78.
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Pelvimetry Patents:
US Patent No.	Title
6669653	Method and apparatus for monitoring the progress of labor
6261247	Position sensing system
4915112	Radiographic measurement device
4734039	Pelvimetry phantom
4362167	Diagnostic measuring instrument
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