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Hammersmith Hospital, Sutton, U.K.

Endovaginal magnetic resonance imaging provides good sensitivity for staging uterine tumors

Published in Law and Health Weekly, August 26th, 2006

Endovaginal magnetic resonance imaging provides good sensitivity for staging uterine tumors.

Scientists writing in the journal Gynecologic Oncology noted, "Estimation of tumor volume by endovaginal magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is a better indicator of prognosis than FIGO stage in women with cervical cancer treated by standard modalities. However, the introduction of fertility conserving surgical techniques makes fresh demands upon imaging of these small tumors."

N.M. deSouza and colleagues at Hammersmith Hospital in England sought "to determine the sensitivity and specificity of endovaginal MRI in detecting small volume disease and...

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