Erschienen in:
01.08.2007 | Review Paper
Masters Allen Syndrome: A Review
verfasst von:
Rahul Gupta, Ehab Elakkary, Mostafa Sadek, Yash Lakra
Erschienen in:
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
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Ausgabe 8/2007
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Excerpt
Allen and Masters in their classic 1955 article [
1] defined
traumatic laceration of uterine support as a syndrome characterized by laceration in the posterior leaf of broad ligament along with abnormally mobile cervix designated as the universal joint 1. Since their original description, a number of authors have defined and redefined this entity to look for a plausible explanation of the symptoms that include dyspareunia and acute or chronic pelvic pain. Because of the rare occurrence of this disease and its limited reporting in the literature, it is important to recognize this as a distinct entity that must be included in the differential diagnosis of pelvic pain. …