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Endometrial Volume Helps Predict Cancer.
MARINA DEL REY, CALIF. -- Indistinguishing endometrial cancer from benign pathology, volume measurements of the endometrium, obtainable only with three-dimensional ultrasound, may be more predictive of endometrial cancer than thickness measurements acquired with standard ultrasound.
The difficulty with using endometrial thickness to flag possible cancer in patients with abnormal bleeding is that the endometrium may have varying thicknesses and other pathologies, such as polyps, that appear as a focal area of thickening, Dr. Dolores H. Pretorius said at a conference on ultrasound and women's health.
"There is significant overlap in the endometrial thickness in patients with cancer and endometrial hyperplasia," said Dr. Pretorius, professor of radiology at the University of California, San Diego.
Unlike conventional ultrasound, the high resolution 3-D sonogram provides a third, c-plane dimension that measures volume, she said at the conference, sponsored by the American Institute of Ultra sound in ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Endometrial Volume Helps Predict Cancer.