[Current potential of sonography for primary and specific diagnosis of endometrial cancer].
Findings on sonography diagnostic potential to be used in screening for endometrial carcinoma suggested an ultrasound examination of 235 postmenopausal patients who had had no relevant complaints. As a result, criteria of ultrasound screening for endometrial tumors in postmenopausal patients were worked out. Later, sonography was carried out in 596 endometrial carcinoma patients with a view to verify the diagnosis. It pointed to inadequate identification of microinvasive carcinoma (up to 5 mm) by transabdominal and transvaginal scanning. Sonography, however, efficiently diagnosed marked infiltration (9.4%), organ involvement (88.4%) and metastatic lesions in the ovaries.
Ashrafian
L A
LA
Russian Center for Roentgeno-Radiology Research, Ministry of Health of the RF, Moscow.
Kharchenko
N V
NV
Ogryzkova
V L
VL
Antonova
I B
IB
Kreĭnin
Iu M
IuM
Postnikova
N A
NA
D000005:Abdomen; D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000556:secondary; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D016889:Endometrial Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods; D014621:Vagina