Abstract
In the period from June 1986 to December 1987, 32 patients underwent surgery for endometrial cancer after preoperative transrectal ultrasonography. Transrectal ultrasonography provides precise images of the endometrium and cervical canal, therefore the degree of myometrial invasion and cervical invasion by endometrial cancer can be estimated.
In order to determine the accuracy of the ultrasonic method, the results were compared with the histopathologic findings from excised specimens.
Ultrasonographic diagnoses of the myometrial invasion and cervical invasion were in accordance with the pathological findings in 83% and 73% of the cases, respectively. The preoperative diagnostic capability of endometrial cancer was improved with this method.
Transrectal ultrasonography is considered to be a very useful method for preoperative diagnosis of endometrial cancer.
