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Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Vol 17, Issue 1 53-61, Copyright © 1998 by American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Intraoperative laparoscopic sonography for improved preoperative sonographic pathologic characterization of adnexal masses

W. T. Yang, P. M. Yuen, S. S. Ho, T. N. Leung and C. Metreweli
Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

This study compares the diagnostic accuracy of laparoscopic sonography and transvaginal sonography in the evaluation of adnexal masses. Fifty-eight women underwent transvaginal sonography, which showed 69 adnexal masses, and laparoscopic ultrasonography, which showed 68 adnexal lesions. Conventional gray-scale ultrasonography (using transvaginal sonography and laparoscopic ultrasonography) was performed with morphologic characterization of internal architecture, followed by color Doppler imaging with spectral Doppler analysis where possible. A specific diagnosis was obtained with transvaginal sonography and laparoscopic ultrasonography based on a combination of imaging features. The specific diagnosis obtained with each imaging modality was compared with the final histologic diagnosis as the gold standard in 57 patients with 68 adnexal masses who underwent cystectomy or oophorectomy. The ability of laparoscopic sonography to detect the contralateral ovary and any residual ovarian tissue in the presence of a mass was also compared with transvaginal sonography. The accuracy of laparoscopic ultrasonography in the characterization of adnexal masses was 83.8% and that of transvaginal sonography was 73.5% (P < 0.05). Laparoscopic sonography showed greater morphologic detail than that obtained with transvaginal sonography, allowed more precise and specific characterization of adnexal masses, and detected additional adnexal lesions not evident on preoperative transvaginal sonography. Laparoscopic ultrasonography showed the contralateral ovary in 86.2% of patients, compared with 81.0% using transvaginal sonography (P = 0.51). In addition, laparoscopic ultrasonography was able to demonstrate the presence of residual ovarian tissue in the side affected pathologically in 76.5% of patients compared with 59.4% using transvaginal sonography (P < 0.005). Laparoscopic sonography allows more precise morphologic characterization of internal architecture and histologic diagnosis of adnexal lesions, but it is as yet unable to increase the diagnostic accuracy of borderline or malignant lesions, possibly due to the small sample size. Laparoscopic sonography is superior to transvaginal sonography in the evaluation of residual ovarian tissue in the side affected pathologically, which may help in surgical planning between cystectomy and oophorectomy, and also in the identification of the contralateral ovary, which may potentially increase the detection of bilateral pathologic conditions.




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