The use of pelvic arteriography in assessing carcinoma of the cervix.
Twenty-nine patients underwent pelvic arteriography as a part of their pre-radical-hysterectomy evaluation for cervical carcinoma. False-positive studies were as common as false-negative studies, not only in the assessment of tumor extension locally, but also in determining the presence of pelvic lymph node involvement. Twenty-one patients underwent preoperative irradiation, but the lack of correlation was similar in 8 patients who were treated by primary radical surgery a few days after arteriography. The clinical estimate of tumor extension corresponded more closely to the pathologic findings than pelvic arteriography.
D000792:Angiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D010388:Pelvis / Q000098:blood supply*; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014599:Uterus / Q000098:blood supply