A pelvic exam is a way for doctors to look for signs of illness in organs in a woman's body before, during, and after menopause. The word "pelvic" refers to the pelvis. The exam is used to look at a ...

Pelvic pain is discomfort in the area below your belly button and above your upper thigh. Pain in the pelvic area is often related to your reproductive organs. But it can stem from problems with your ...

A person with pelvic floor dysfunction will have difficulty controling the muscles of their pelvic floor. This can lead to difficulty when having a bowel movement, urinary problems, lower back pain, ...

Would you know if you had a pelvic fracture? Commonly confused with a hip injury, a broken pelvis is seen in two primary populations: patients with life-threatening injuries and older patients who ...

Up to half of all women will experience some degree of pelvic organ prolapse in their lifetime. The condition can cause ...

Using ultrasound to diagnose pelvic pain can reveal unexpected pathologies, according to new research presented at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2015 Annual Convention in Lake Buena ...

Higher levels of visceral fat were linked to about a 51% increase in the likelihood of stress urinary incontinence. That’s a ...

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A 42-year-old white female presented to the ED with a 2-year history of intermittent pain in the coccygeal region. There was no prior history of weight loss; the patient denied any related symptoms, ...

D CT pelvic measurements may predict the difficulty of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy, helping guide surgical planning ...

Melanoma cell expression of macrophage markers in AJCC stage I/II melanoma. Background: Computed tomography (CT) scans can be of great value to assess distant metastases in melanoma patients with a ...