Atcı Nesrin, Özgür Tümay, Öztürk Fatma, Dolapçıoğlu Kenan Serdar
Mustafa Kemal University, Medical Faculty, Department of Radiology, Hatay, Turkey.
Mustafa Kemal University, Medical Faculty, Department of Pathology, Hatay, Turkey.
Clin Imaging. 2016 Nov-Dec;40(6):1104-1107. doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2016.07.004. Epub 2016 Jul 11.
The aim of this study is to evaluate the utility of intravaginal ultrasound gel for the staging of cervical carcinoma on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and to confirm the results with pathological staging.
Nine patients were included in the study. T2-weighted images were compared without and with vaginal gel (VG).
Five patients were evaluated as overstaged on MRI without VG. After VG, the results were compatible with the pathological stages in all patients.
We suggest that this technique is easy, well tolerated, and effective, and it increases the accuracy rate of MRI staging in early cervical cancer.
本研究旨在评估阴道内超声凝胶在宫颈癌磁共振成像(MRI)分期中的作用,并通过病理分期来证实结果。
本研究纳入9例患者。比较了未使用和使用阴道凝胶(VG)时的T2加权图像。
5例患者在未使用VG的MRI检查中被评估为分期过高。使用VG后,所有患者的结果均与病理分期相符。
我们认为该技术简便、耐受性良好且有效,它提高了早期宫颈癌MRI分期的准确率。