8. Signs:
– PV and bimanual:
• Posterior lip is 1st
to be felt
• Direction of ex. Os
• Body of uterus ( most common mass in Douglas pouch)
– Uterine sound: confirm direction
– Pessary test. ???
Special investigations:
– US
– HSG: lateral view
Diagnosis
10. Treatment lines
• No treatment : if no symptoms
• Prophylactic treatment: during puerperium
• Active treatment
– Fixed RVF: treatment of the cause
– Mobile RVF:
• Palliative: pessary treatment
• Operative treatment: positive pessary test
• Treatment of incarcerated RVF gravid uterus
11. Prophylactic treatment
(during puerperium)
• Avoid full bladder.
• Lying on abdomen one hour daily to
encourage AVF.
• Postnatal examination (after 3 weeks)
– Discover RVF
– Pessary correction
12. Palliative treatment
(Hodge-smith pessary)
• Indications:
– Pessary test
– Puerperal: RVF
– Pregnancy: RVF during pregnancy till 14th
week ??
– Patient: refuse, unfit, or has contraindications to operations
– Certain cases of infertility when other causes were
excluded
13. Surgical treatment
(if positive pessary test)
• Abdominal: laparotomy/laparoscopy
– Ventrosuspension: plication and suturing of both
round ligaments to anterior rectus sheath ( modified
Gilliam's operation)
– Ventrofixation: fundus suturing to anterior abdominal
wall (Bad, posterior sacculation during pregnancy)
– Baldy- Webster operation: round ligament passed
through broad ligament and sutured to back of the
uterus
14. Surgical treatment
(if positive pessary test)
• Vaginal:
– Open Douglas pouch : shortening of uterosacral
ligament.
– Open uterovesical pouch: plication of round
ligament.
20. Treatment of incarcerated RVF
gravid uterus
• Catheterization of the bladder.
• Manual correction of uterus.
• Mobile: Pessary till 14th
week.
• Fixed :laparotomy to cut adhesion.
22. Uterine inversion
• Def : the uterus is turned inside out.
• Types:
– Acute: puerperal inversion during or
immediately after labor.??????
– Chronic : gradual descent of the fundus
through dilated cervix may be:
• puerperal or
• non puerperal
24. Chronic uterine inversion
• Causes:
– Puerperal: not recognized after labor.
– Fundal tumor.
– Senile due to:
• Atrophy
• Decreased tone
25. Chronic uterine inversion
• Symptoms:
– Discharge
– Vaginal bleeding
– Pain:
• Chronic pelvic pain
• Dyspareunia
– Infertility
– Mass in vagina or protrude outside vulva
26. Chronic uterine inversion
• Signs:
– PV & bimanual:
• Cupping of the uterus: 1st
& 2nd
degree
• Absent uterus: 3rd
degree.
• Mass: red infected in vagina or protrude outside
vulva.
– Uterine sound: short distance.
• DD:
– Mass in vagina
– Mass at vulva
27. Treatment
• Senile inversion: vaginal hysterectomy.
• Malignant tumor: according to staging.
• Fundal myoma: according to age
Young age Old age
Myomectomy & correction of
inversion
Hysterectomy
29. Surgical treatment
(Chronic puerperal inversion)
• Old age: hysterectomy.
• Young age:
– Vaginal: division of cervical ring then
correction of inversion
• Ant. (Spinelli)
• Post. (Kustner)
– Abdominal:
• Traction on depressed fundus by volsellum
( Huntington)
• Division of cervical ring and pulling on fundus
– Ant. (Dobbin)
– Post. (Haultain)