Sonographic and Doppler flow characteristics of ovarian tumors of low-malignant potential

✍ Scribed by Tepper, Ronnie; Altaras, Marco; Zalel, Yaron; Goldberger, Shmuel; Cohen, Ilan; Beyth, Yoram; Ben-Baruch, Gilad

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 207 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2751
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0096(199702)25:2<57::aid-jcu2>3.0.co;2-i

✦ Synopsis

Objective: To outline the sonographic and color Doppler flow imaging characteristics of ovarian tumors of low-malignant potential (OCLMP).

Methods: Fourteen women with ovarian tumors of low-malignant potential were compared with 26 women with ovarian cystadenomas and 23 with ovarian carcinomas.

Results: Sonographically, more complex structures and echogenic lesions were found in the OCLMP and malignant tumors than in the cystadenomas, and the difference was statistically significant. Color blood flow imaging revealed a similar resistant index (RI) in the OCLMP (0.487 ± 0.07) and cystadenomas (0.489 ± 0.09) when compared with statistically significant lower RI in the ovarian carcinomas (0.391 ± 0.05) (P < 0.001).

Conclusions: Among young women, the combination of a complex ovarian mass with turbid fluid and echogenic lesions whose color Doppler flow imaging registers in the low range (RI < 0.5) should raise the suspicion of an ovarian tumor of low-malignant potential.