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[Evaluation of ovarian masses with transabdominal color Doppler]
H Vaccaro Cerva1, F Amor Lillo
1Servicio de Obstetricia y Ginecología, Hospital del Salvador.
Abstract:
Twenty-one patients with ovarian tumors are studied using transabdominal color Doppler, in order to predict malignancy, depending on the vascular pattern obtained. In the 4 ovarian cancers, the resistance index (RI) was below 0.70. In 16 benign tumors the RI was above 0.70. Only one benign tumor, (hemorrhagic thecaluteinic cyst) had a low resistance vascular pattern. The sensibility of the method was 100%, its specificity 94.1%, the positive predictive value 80% and the negative predictive value 100%.
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