[Comparison of ultrasound and computed tomography (CT) for the diagnosis of paraaortic lymphnode metastasis in patients with gynecologic malignancies].
Fifty-one patients with gynecologic malignancies were tested for paraaortic lymphnode metastasis by ultrasound and computed tomography (CT). Eleven patients were found to have paraaortic lymphnode metastasis by ultrasound, and CT also showed the same metastatic image in the same patients. The site and size of the positive image found by both means were identical. The other forty patients diagnosed by ultrasound as free of metastasis were also proved to have no metastasis by CT. Ultrasound is as useful as CT in the evaluation of paraaortic nodes. However, ultrasound is more convenient and easier to use than CT.
Chen
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JT
Department of Gynecology, Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo.
Yamashiro
T
T
Shimizu
Y
Y
Nakayama
K
K
Teshima
H
H
Hirai
Y
Y
Hamada
T
T
Fujimoto
I
I
Yamauchi
K
K
Hasumi
K
K
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology; D003536:Cystadenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005833:Genital Neoplasms, Female / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology