title: Transrectal ultrasonography and cervical neoplasia. A preliminary report.
abstract: Transrectal ultrasonography is a new diagnostic method recently introduced in the study of normal and pathologic pelvis. The Authors describe their preliminary experience with the use of a rectal linear probe in the evaluation of the carcinoma of the cervix. This ultrasonographic method has resulted very useful in providing an imaging of cervical cancer in evaluating its effective diffusion and in precising demeasurements of the neoplastic mass. The results are particularly encouraging and justify continued experimentation.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D010386:Pelvic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010388:Pelvis / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D011184:Postoperative Period; D014465:Ultrasonics / Q000295:instrumentation; D014463:Ultrasonography; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery