1. Ovarian cancer staging: What the surgeon needs to know
- Author
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Publio Cesar Cavalcante Viana, Lucas Roberto Lelis Botelho de Oliveira, Natally Horvat, Pedro Sergio Brito Panizza, Giovanni Guido Cerri, and Pamela Ines Causa Andrieu
- Subjects
Diagnostic Imaging ,Ovarian Neoplasms ,Surgeons ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Female genitourinary oncology special feature: Pictorial Review ,business.industry ,General surgery ,Ovary ,Advanced stage ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Gynecological cancer ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Humans ,Medicine ,Female ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Presentation (obstetrics) ,business ,Ovarian cancer ,Neoplasm Staging - Abstract
Ovarian cancer (OC) is the leading cause of gynecological cancer death, and most cases are diagnosed at advanced stages due to a nonspecific and insidious clinical presentation. Radiologists play a critical role in the decision of which patients are candidates for primary debulking surgery and who may benefit from neoadjuvant chemotherapy. This pictorial review summarizes the dissemination patterns of OC, main imaging findings of metastatic disease, and which findings may alter the treatment plan or predict suboptimal tumor resection.
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- 2021