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- Title
Limitations of three-dimensional power Doppler angiography in preoperative evaluation of ovarian tumors.
- Authors
Silvestre, Liliane; Martins, Wellington P.; Candido-dos-Reis, Francisco J.
- Abstract
Background: This study describes the accuracy of three-dimensional power Doppler (3D-PD) angiography as secondary method for differential diagnosis of ovarian tumors. Method: Seventy-five women scheduled for surgical removal of adnexal masses were assessed by transvaginal ultrasound. Ovarian tumors were classified by IOTA simple rules and two three-dimensional blocks were recorded. In a second step analyses, a 4 cm3 spherical sample was obtained from the highest vascularized solid area of each stored block. Vascularization index (VI), flow index (FI) and vascularization-flow index (VFI) were calculated. The repeatability was assessed by concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) and limits of agreement (LoA), and diagnostic accuracy by area under ROC curve. Results: IOTA simple rules classified 26 cases as benign, nine as inconclusive and 40 as malignant. There were eight false positive and no false negative. Among the masses classified as inconclusive or malignant by IOTA simple rules, the CCCs were 0.91 for VI, 0.70 for FI, and 0.86 for VFI. The areas under ROC curve were 0.82 for VI, 0.67 for FI and 0.81 for VFI. Conclusions: 3D-PD angiography presented considerable intraobserver variability and low accuracy for identifying false positive results of IOTA simple rules.
- Subjects
DIGITAL angiography; OVARIAN tumors; DIFFERENTIAL diagnosis; TRANSVAGINAL ultrasonography; OVARIAN cancer diagnosis; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Journal of Ovarian Research, 2015, Vol 8, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1757-2215
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s13048-015-0174-y