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Ovarian cancer.

Mironov S, Akin O, Pandit-Taskar N, Hann LE

Department of Radiology, Cornell University Weill Medical College, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA. mironovs@mskcc.org

Imaging has become an essential part of the clinical management of patients with ovarian cancer, contributing to tumor detection, characterization, staging, treatment planning, and follow-up. Imaging findings incorporated into the clinical impression assist in creating a treatment plan specific for an individual patient. Advances in cross-sectional imaging and nuclear medicine (PET) have yielded new insights into the evaluation of tumor prognostic factors. A multimodality approach can satisfy the complex imaging needs of a patient with ovarian cancer; however, the success of such an approach always depends on available resources and on the skills of the physicians involved.

Published 12 December 2006 in Radiol Clin North Am, 45(1): 149-66.
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