AROI-ESTRO GYN Teaching Course

ULTRASONOGRAPHY (USG)

Limitations

Advantages

• First line imaging investigation • Non invasive • Widely available & inexpensive • No ionizing radiation • Detection of primary tumours • Hydronephrosis

• User dependent • Non-reproducible results • Obscuration of details by bowel gases • Primary tumour • Pelvic lymph nodes and pelvic side walls, peritoneal disease

• Parametrial spread • Bladder invasion