The use of modern imaging methods in diagnosis and staging of malignant tumors of the reproductive organs
2009
Abstract
Precise diagnostics and clinical staging of the illness is the fundamental requirement for optimal treatment of malignant tumours, in all of oncology. Clinical staging only based on physical examination is insufficient.
Many authors are therefore emphasizing the need for utilizing one of the imaging methods as obligatory during clinical staging. Those are ultrasound (US), computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR) a positron emission tomography (PET).