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Radiology, Vol 206, 539-547, Copyright © 1998 by Radiological Society of North America

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Preoperative staging of endometrial carcinoma: diagnostic effect of T2- weighted fast spin-echo MR imaging

S Takahashi, T Murakami, Y Narumi, H Kurachi, K Tsuda, T Kim, T Enomoto, K Tomoda, A Miyake, Y Murata and H Nakamura
Department of Radiology, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.

PURPOSE: To evaluate the usefulness of T2-weighted fast spin-echo magnetic resonance (MR) imaging with a 512 x 256 matrix for assessment of the preoperative stage of endometrial carcinoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twenty-eight women with histopathologically proved endometrial carcinoma underwent preoperative T2-weighted fast spin-echo, dynamic T1- weighted fast spin-echo, and postcontrast T1-weighted spin-echo MR imaging with a phased-array surface coil. The uterine long-axis planes in each sequence were reviewed at separate sessions by three radiologists blinded to the histopathologic data. RESULTS: For the diagnosis of myometrial invasion, no statistically significant differences were found among T2-weighted imaging, dynamic imaging, and postcontrast T1-weighted imaging. For the diagnosis of deep myometrial invasion, T2-weighted and dynamic images showed higher specificity than postcontrast T1-weighted images (T2-weighted, 89%; dynamic, 88%; and postcontrast T1-weighted, 80%). For cervical invasion, T2-weighted and dynamic images showed larger areas under receiver operating characteristic curves than did postcontrast T1-weighted images (T2- weighted, 0.78; dynamic, 0.71; and postcontrast T1-weighted, 0.67). CONCLUSION: T2-weighted imaging is useful for identifying the stage of endometrial carcinoma.


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