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Magnetic resonance imaging—its application to cervical carcinoma
Author(s) -
POWELL M. C.,
WORTHINGTON B. S.,
SOKAL M.,
WASTIE M.,
BUCKLEY J.,
SYMONDS E. M.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1986.tb07866.x
Subject(s) - magnetic resonance imaging , cervical carcinoma , cervical cancer , stage (stratigraphy) , medicine , cervix , radiology , carcinoma , computed tomography , nuclear medicine , cancer , pathology , biology , paleontology
Summary. Twenty‐five women with primary carcinoma of the cervix were examined with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A number of different pulse sequences with T 1 and T 2 weighting were employed to determine optimum tissue contrast, and the potential for staging cervical cancer was assessed and compared with the clinical findings. MRI is seen to give a unique view of cervical cancer in particular in stage I and II disease where other imaging techniques have known limitations. In addition, stages III and IV were well seen with demonstration of tumour comparable with that of computerized axial tomography (CT).