title: Early detection of ovarian cancer with conventional and contrast-enhanced transvaginal sonography: recent advances and potential improvements.
abstract: Recently, there have been several major technical advances in the sonographic diagnosis of ovarian cancer in its early stages. These include improved assessment of tumor morphology with transvaginal sonography (TVS), and detection and characterization of tumor neovascularity with transvaginal color Doppler sonography (TV-CDS) and contrast-enhanced transvaginal sonography (CE-TVS). This paper will discuss and illustrate these improvements and describe how they enhance detection of early-stage ovarian cancer. Our initial experience with parametric mapping of CE-TVS will also be mentioned.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 37232 Nashville, TN, USA.
authors.forename: Arthur C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Fleischer
authors.forename: Andrej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lyshchik
authors.forename: Makiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hirari
authors.forename: Ryan D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: Richard G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Abramson
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Fishman