title: [Value of fine needle aspiration biopsy in cervical cancer].
abstract: Correct staging qualification, especially evaluation of parametrium is very useful in choosing of adequate method of treatment, and thereby in patients' survival.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of study was estimation of the value of fine needle aspiration biopsy in transvaginal ultrasonography assistant in preoperative assessment of parametria in cervical cancer. We compared parametrial infiltration before treatment and to verified and confirmed staging in cervical cancer postoperatively by histopathology.
  
  
  METHODS
  64 women with cervical cancer in stage Ib, were included in the study. Assessment of parametrial invasion before treatment was performed by fine needle aspiration biopsy in endovaginal ultrasound assistants. The sonographic evaluation of parametria was performed by Siemens Sonoline Versa Pro with transvaginal 7 MHz mechanical transducer with the biopsy guide 14 cm long. All of patients with cervical cancer in stage Ib were operated on Wertheim-Meigs hysterectomy. The preoperative findings were compared with data obtained by histopathology findings. There were evaluated sensitivity, specificity and diagnostic accuracy of this method.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Accuracy of fine needle aspiration biopsy of parametrial involvement was 89%, sensitivity-70%, specificity-92.6%, PPV-63.6%, NPV-94.3%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Transvaginal ultrasonography is superior to routine clinical examination in the assessment of parametria. Sensitivity of fine needle biopsy with ultrasound assistance is higher then of gynecological examination and ultrasound alone. Correct preoperative diagnosis may improve staging, treatment and indirectly, survival patients with cervical cancer.
authors.affiliation: Katedry i Kliniki Połoznictwa i Ginekologii II Wydziału Lekarskiego Akademii Medycznej w Warszawie.
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cendrowski
authors.forename: Włodzimierz
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sawicki
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wygledowski
authors.forename: Beata
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Spiewankiewicz
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stelmachów
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle / Q000379:methods; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D011044:Poland; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014621:Vagina