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Our primary aim was to test a new technique for measuring cervical length.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Materials and Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We enrolled women undergoing hysterectomy, with or without pelvic organ prolapse (for all indications except cervical tumours\/history of cervical operations). Their cervical lengths were measured both by ultrasound and anatomical measurement. The external length of the cervix was measured using Doppler location of the uterine artery near the cervical\u2010uterine junction as the proximal point and compared to the ultrasound measurement of the cervical canal. The uterine specimen was used to record anatomical cervical measurements as well as uterine corpus length. Baseline characteristics such as age, body mass index and pelvic organ prolapse quantification were also collected.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Twenty women were eligible for evaluation. We found the average anatomical cervical canal length was (ccAN) 33.95\u2009mm (range\u2009\u00b1\u2009\u20099.23) and by external measurement (ceAN) 36.80\u2009mm (range\u2009\u00b1\u20097.54). We found a significant, high\u2010powered correlation between our ultrasound and anatomical measurements in both techniques, as well as between the two ultrasound techniques. 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