[Ovarian cancer. Pretherapeutic evaluation and post-therapeutic follow-up]

The number, the variety and the complexity of investigations for diagnosis and follow-up of ovarian carcinoma are related to the diversity of possible involvement and the insufficiency of the reliability of each of the applied methods. Cytologic examination, sonography and CT scanning are of first line importance, as well as the different roentgenologic methods. However, none allows dispensing surgical exploration and pathological examination. Moreover, as one speaks of therapeutic strategy, diagnostic strategy lead by a homogeneous and well coordinated team, is worthy of mention as well, for it is the only guarantee for efficiency and valuable results.