Ultrasound Appearance of Cervical Carcinoma

Abstract

This retrospective study was conducted at Radiation and Isotopes Centre of Khartoum (RICK), in the period from November 2007 to May 2008. This study is done to a number of 50 female patients reported as patients of ca cervix diagnosed by biopsy; all the patients had done ultrasound examinations in the diagnostic department of the hospital and all of them were following in Radiation and Isotopes Centre of Khartoum (RICK) with their oncologists. The data was collected from the patient's files about age, marital status, number of children, districts and the ultrasound reports; this data was analyzed by tables and graphs in percentages according to the cancer stage (I, II, III, and IV). The ages of the patients ranged between 32 and 85 years and the cervix cancer was common in the age group 46-60 years in all cancer stage, the distribution of the patients according to their districts explained most of the patients from the west of the Sudan; all the patients were married and had children the number of children ranged between 2-15 children. The ultrasound report is different according to the cancer stages, in stage I the normal reports represented (75%), all the normal reports in stage II for stage IIA and had (43%), in stage IIB the cervical mass represented (29%), bulky uterus represented (7%) and undefined reports represented (21%), in stage III the cervical mass with hydronephrosis and just hydronephrosis represented equal percentages (30.5%), in stage IV the cervical mass with spread to adjacent organs represented (67%) as a high percentage. From all of the above we were found that: the appearance of cervical cancer in ultrasonography was normal in stage I &IIA, stage IIB appear as cervical mass and bulky uterus, stage III appear as cervical mass with hydronephrosis and stage IV appear as cervical mass with spread to adjacent organs.