Diagnostic accuracy of FDG PET in the follow-up of platinum-sensitive epithelial ovarian carcinoma.

Purpose: This study was designed to retrospectively evaluate the diagnostic yield of FDG PET for the diagnosis of recurrent ovarian cancer.

Methods: Eighty FDG PET scans were performed on 55 patients owing to suspicion of relapse, and 45 FDG PET scans were performed on 31 patients who were clinically disease free. PET results were compared with the results of conventional radiological imaging (CIM) and serum CA 125 levels, and related to pathological findings in 54 cases or clinical follow-up in 71 cases.

Transvaginal gray scale and color Doppler sonography in primary ovarian cancer and metastatic tumors to the ovary.

Objective: To compare gray scale and color Doppler features of primary and metastatic ovarian carcinomas.

Methods: Clinical, sonographic (gray scale and color Doppler), and histopathologic data of 143 patients with primary (n = 127 adnexal masses) and metastatic (n = 34 adnexal masses) ovarian cancer were reviewed. Morphologic gray scale parameters assessed were bilaterality, tumor volume, echogenicity, and presence of septa, papillary projections, or solid areas.