B-mode and Power Doppler Ultrasound in Adnexal Masses

Autor:	N. Garau, Marco Angiolucci, M. Pilloni, Gian Benedetto Melis, Valerio Mais, Silvia Ajossa, Bruno Piras, Anna Maria Paoletti, Stefano Angioni, E Silvetti, Stefano Guerriero
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Surgical approach Transvaginal ultrasonography business.industry Ultrasound Less invasive surgery Color doppler Power doppler ultrasound Triage Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiology Geriatrics and Gerontology Medical diagnosis business
Zdroj:	Donald School Journal of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 3:31-40
ISSN:	0975-1912 0973-614X
Popis:	Adnexal masses can be classified in ovarian, paraovarian or tubal. In the present review we analyzed the diagnostic performance of transvaginal ultrasonography in identifying simple ultrasonographic findings of benign adnexal pathology but also the role of color Doppler in the differential diagnoses between benign and malignant masses and in the preoperative triage. Because of many kinds of adnexal masses have usually a typical ultrasound appearance, the results of the studies present in literature showed a good and sufficient diagnostic accuracy. Unfortunately some cases with uncertain findings are present and in these cases the addition of color Doppler can be useful as demonstrated by several authors. Using the location of flow evaluated using color Doppler as main parameter a mass should be graded as malignant if flow is shown centrally within the excrescences or solid areas. The same approach should be used to triage the patients with adnexal masses to the most appropriate surgical approach with an increase of less invasive surgery.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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