Research Article
The Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasound in Assessment of Myometrial Invasion in Endometrial Cancer: Subjective Assessment versus Objective Techniques
Table 2
Ultrasound parameters of tumors in 210 women with histologically confirmed endometrial cancer.
| | Characteristic | Value |
| | Image quality | | Good | 119 (56.7) | | Moderate | 54 (25.7) | | Poor | 37 (17.6) | | Uterine size (mm) | | Craniocaudal | 71 (53; 106) | | Anteroposterior | 40 (28; 58) | | Laterolateral | 52 (36; 77) | | Tumor size (mm) | | Craniocaudal | 29 (11; 58) | | Anteroposterior | 16 (5; 42) | | Laterolateral | 29 (8; 56) | | Objective parameters of myometrial invasion (mm) | | Deepest myometrial invasion width | 7 (0; 15) | | Minimal tumor-free margin | 6 (0; 17) | | Normal myometrium width | 12 (5; 20) | | Subjective assessment of tumor invasion | ā | | Deep myometrial invasion (ā„50%) | 102 (48.6) | | Present cervical stromal invasion | 25 (11.9) | | Uterine fibroids | | Absent | 142 (67.6) | | Present | 68 (32.4) |
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Data are given as median (5th percentile; 95th percentile) for continuous variables; (%) for categorical variables.
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