Dear Women's Imaging Insider,
Gynecologic issues are the focus of this issue of the Women's Imaging Insider. First, a group from Turkey tackled stromal sarcoma in the myometrium with ultrasound, CT, and MRI. They found that no single modality was superior in making this difficult differential diagnosis.
Next, interventional radiologists have experimented with a porcine small intestinal submucosa device for fallopian tube occlusion. The goal is to find a nonsurgical way to perform sterilization. Click here to read a summary of both of these areas of research.
Also, take a look at a report on ultrasound for excluding ectopic pregnancy, straight from the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine conference in Phoenix. Investigators from Boston discussed the intradecidual sign to differentiate a normal intrauterine pregnancy from an ectopic pregnancy.
Researchers from Scotland also reported sonographic success for predicting a woman's reproductive age. They found a strong positive correlation between ultrasound-assessed ovarian volume and the number of primordial follicles remaining in women between 25 and 51 years of age. Finally, a third article makes the case for noninvasive prenatal screening, such as ultrasound, in order to limit the use of amniocentesis.
