Fig. 6

MRI evaluation of incision-healing status twelve months after transverse uterine fundal incision

A: All the patients had a wound thickness index ≥ 50% and approximately 90% of the patients had an index ≥ 70%

Wound thickness index*: The thickness of the scar compared with the thickness of the surrounding muscle layer by MRI

B: Vascularization status Grade 0, 1, and 2 was found in 4 (6%), 37 (52%), and 30 (42%) women, respectively. The scar area of four patients was not enhanced based on dynamic contrast-enhanced images (Grade 0), but their wound thickness index was ≥ 80%