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2003 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Patterns and spectrum of imaging findings can facilitate diagnosis and treatment.
"Ovarian carcinoma is the most common cause of death from a gynecologic malignancy. The most important prognostic factors are the presence and magnitude of residual or recurrent disease after therapy," scientists writing in the journal Abdominal Imaging report.
"Recurrent ovarian malignancy usually manifests as pelvic masses in the surgical bed, peritoneal seeding, nodal recurrence and pleuropulmonary lesions, and liver metastasis," wrote C.M. Park and colleagues, Seoul National University College of Medicine.
"Pelvic recurrence involves the vaginal stump, parametria, urinary bladder, and/or bowel adjacent to the surgical bed. Peritoneal seeding presents as nodules on the peritoneal surface, most commonly around the liver or cul-de-sac, and mesenteric infiltration," they researchers wrote.
"Pseudomyxoma peritonei is the other form of peritoneal seeding. Nodal recurrence appears as enlarged paraaortic nodes, especially at the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Patterns and spectrum of imaging findings can facilitate diagnosis...