[Diagnostic value of transvaginal color Doppler sonography for endometrial cancer].
OBJECTIVE
To study the values of transvaginal color Doppler sonography (TV-CDS) in the diagnosis of endometrial cancer.


METHODS
In this study we selected 42 pathologically defined endometrial cancer cases, in which the preoperative TV- CDS results were reviewed and the myometrial invasion investigated in comparison with the postoperative histopathological findings, for extracting the ultrasonographic features of this malignancy in different clinical stages.


RESULTS
TV-CDS yielded the diagnoses of endometrial cancer that were highly consistent (with a rate of 95.24%) with the pathological findings, also capable of detecting myometrial invasion in 93.33% of the cases. The depth of myometrial invasion is accurately defined by TV-CDS in 80.95% of the cases.


CONCLUSIONS
TV-CDS provides valuables evidence for the diagnosis and clinical staging of endometrial cancer.
Tan
Xiao
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Department of Ultrasound, Firth Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Liuzhou 545001, China. tanxiao@yahoo.com
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016889:Endometrial Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004717:Endometrium / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color; D014621:Vagina