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KMID : 0378019830260120121
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New Medical Journal
1983 Volume.26 No. 12 p.121 ~ p.128
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Ultrasound Study of Follicular Maturation and Ovulation During the Normal Menstrual Cycle
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Abstract
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Follicular development was followed by ultrasound during 15 menstrual cycles in 15 women volunteers.
The main objective was to determine weather ovulation or failure to ovulate could be detected accurately by the use of ultrasound.
The ovaries were scanned with Aloka Sect Scan SSD-710 sector scanner every day for morphologic changes consistent with follicular development and ovulation.
Results were correlated with basal body temperature curves and cervical mucus changes.
The average follicular growth as measured from the time of ultrasonographic visualization was 1. 78mm/day for 4 days and rapid growth of follicles was observed the day before ovulation (3. 9mm/day).
The diameter of the follicle measured the day before disappearance was 21.7±2. 50mm. In all cases ultrasonograpy was shown to indicate accurately the time of ovulation.
The ultrasound studies indicated a wide range in the diameter of the preovulatory follicle, which precludes follicular diameter as a single index for prediction of ovulation.
Given its inoffensive nature, the usefulness of ultrasound in determining the physical event of ovulation is demonstrated.
Possible applications in the survelliance of ovulation induction methods and in artificial insemiation are discussed.
This technique was found to be quick, inexpensive, and efficient.
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