Diagnosis of ovarian cancer

(A) Clinical manifestations

1) Early in general have few symptoms, some patients, there may be abdominal distention, abdominal discomfort, loss of appetite, indigestion embolism.

2) disease to late, when the sad tumor continued to grow, traction, oppression and invasion, when the neighboring organs to produce severe abdominal pain, abdominal are intimidated, with feces and urine to stimulate the symptoms, rather then the cause of ureteral obstruction, some patients may be associated with bleeding phenomenon.

(B) laboratory tests

(1) cytological examination: a small number of patients with ovarian cancer, vaginal smears can see the sand body and cancer cells.

(2) ultrasound examination: B super-pelvic ultrasound scan can show arsenazo block location, size and texture.

(3) Electrical in computer tomography (CT): able to determine the full range of disease, help determine the period of ovarian cancer and recurrence of other foci.

(4) lymph angiography: can help determine the rate of ovarian cancer, lymph node involvement. According to statistics, the accuracy rate was 87%.

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(5) Laparoscopy: Laparoscopy can be directly observed through the abdominal internal organs to determine the location and nature of the lesion may also hold lessons ascites fine line examination in order to evaluate whether the proliferation of ovarian cancer.

(6) surgery a pathological examination: exploratory laparotomy after the diagnosis of ovarian tumor pathology examination is an important method, are consistent with rates of up to 94.16 percent, according to statistics. After intra-abdominal lymph nodes may be involved to make a firm assessment.




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