title: [Current potential of sonography for primary and specific diagnosis of endometrial cancer].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Russian Center for Roentgeno-Radiology Research, Ministry of Health of the RF, Moscow.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Ashrafian
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Kharchenko
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Ogryzkova
authors.forename: I B
authors.initials: IB
authors.lastname: Antonova
authors.forename: Iu M
authors.initials: IuM
authors.lastname: Kreĭnin
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Postnikova
mesh_terms: 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