Recurrent female pelvic cancer: assessment with transrectal ultrasonography.

Fifty-two women with symptoms or signs suggesting pelvic recurrence of biopsy-proved pelvic cancer were assessed in a prospective trial by clinical examination, transabdominal pelvic ultrasonography (TAU), computed tomography (CT), and transrectal pelvic ultrasonography (TRU). TRU significantly added to the information from TAU in the measurement of abnormalities on the pelvic sidewalls, and to TAU and CT in the measurement of abnormalities in the central and presacral regions of the pelvis. Results of this preliminary study suggest that TRU may provide information complementary to that from CT in women with suspected recurrence of gynecologic cancer.