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USLUnited Soccer Leagues
USLUtah State Library
USLUterosacral Ligament (anatomy)
USLUnità Sanitarie Locali (Italian: Local Sanitary Unity)
USLUnion Sportive de Luzenac (French: Sports Union of Luzenac; Luzenac, France)
USLUnderwater Sound Laboratory (US Navy)
USLUnderdog Sports Leagues (Seattle, WA)
USLUniversal Static Line
USLUnited Spirits Limited (India)
USLUniversity of Southwestern Louisiana
USLUNIX System Laboratories
USLUpper Specification Limit
USLUnited States 12 Month Oil Fund, LP (stock symbol)
USLUnskilled Labor
USLUniversity of St. Louis (Tuguegarao City, Philippines)
USLUniversal Sign Language
USLUnorthodox Scripting Language (computer programming)
USLUnlimited Site License (software agreement)
USLUser System Language
USLUser Services Layer
USLUp Stage Left
USLUniversal Static Line (US Army)
USLUnion Sportive Lavalloise (French sports organization)
USLUnion des Sociétés Lausannoises (French: Union of Societies, Lusanne; Switzerland)
USLUnited States Laboratory
USLUniversity School of the Lowcountry (Mt. Pleasant, SC)
USLUnion Sportive Luzechoise (French sports organization)
USLUnderwater Sound Lab (US Navy, Fort Trumbull, New London, CT)
USLUser Segmented Library
USLUnder Slung Load (aviation)
USLUnites States Lines, Inc
USLUpper Statistical Limit
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Uterosacral ligament suspension could be performed vaginally, abdominally, laparoscopically, or robotically, and it suspends the apex of the vagina into the tissue of the presacral region and thus does not create any signification distortion of the vaginal axis.
Dissection of the vagina from the rectum and uterosacral ligaments after developing the pararectal space can maintain an extra field for surgery.
Caption: Figure 8: Laparoscopic view of an endometriotic nodule of the sigmoid attached to the left uterosacral ligament.
During hysterectomy, fresh sterile uterosacral ligament tissues with a size of approximately 0.5 cm x 0.5 cm x 0.5 cm were harvested and then cut into pieces with a diameter smaller than 0.1 cm for the primary culture.
Zone II is the area between the two uterosacral ligaments from their origin from the back of the uterus to their insertions in the sacrum posteriorly.
These include a fixed retroverted uterus, tender adnexal masses, tenderness or nodularity of the uterosacral ligaments, nodules in the rectovaginal septum, and rarely blue or red lesions in the posterior vaginal fornix.
"The ablation was performed as close to the posterior aspect of the cervix as possible and continued for a minimum of 1 cm posterolaterally on either side with the intended aim of destroying the sensory nerve fibers and the secondary ganglia as they left the uterus and lie within the uterosacral ligaments," Ms.
Among women with deep dyspareunia, those with deep infiltrating endometriosis of the uterosacral ligament have the most severe impairment of sexual function.
In a recent large randomized controlled trial, the rate of intraoperative ureteral obstruction following uterosacral ligament suspension (USLS) was 3.2%.
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