Early Cervical Cancer: Predictive Relevance of Preoperative 3-Tesla Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Figure 3

Stage IB2 squamous cervical carcinoma in a 49-year-old woman with radical hysterectomy (A) T2-weighted axial MR images show a 6cm sized lobulated concentric tumoral thickening of whole cervical stroma with an ill-defined peripheral margin (arrow) and invasion to endomyometrium(arrowhead); the maximum diameter of the lesion is measured 6cm on the T2-weighted sagittal image. At histopathological finding, no parametrial lesion was found. MRI stage T2b (> 4 cm) was overdiagnosed as final pathologic stage T1b2.