Prospective comparison between clinical and CT staging in primary cervical carcinoma

Value of Computerized Axial Tomography in Cervical Cancer

“…[1], 59%; Walsh and Goplcrud [2], 57%; Walsh et al [3], 40%. Walton et al [4] reported a sensitivity of 93%.…”

Three‐dimensional reconstruction of colon carcinoma metastases in liver

“…In particular, the lack of methods for direct observations of the dynamics of tumour invasion in the nontransparent living host tissue limits developments in this aspect. CT, MRI and in vivo microscopy are useful for the detection of tumours and metastases (Walsh & Goplerud, 1981;Gabbert, 1985;Kim et al, 1990;Bennet et al, 1991;Van Leeuwen et al, 1994, 1995Kan et al, 1995) and for the follow-up of the response to therapy (Tacek et al, 1991;Hricak et al, 1993), but these techniques are based on the acquisition of noninvasive virtual sections with a spatial resolution of the order of millimetres. Therefore, these techniques do not provide sufficient spatial resolution for detection of micrometastases (Schreve et al, 1984) or interactions between cancer cells, stroma and surrounding tissues.…”

Computed Tomography in Staging Untreated Patients with Cervical Cancer

“…Several investigators have stressed the im portance of CT in demonstrating the extent of the disease in cases of cervical cancer and some of them have stated that CT is indi cated in all cases of cervical cancer to objec tify and complete the clinical findings [5,6,8,9]. Walsh and Goplerud [8] prospectively cor related CT staging with clinical findings in 75 untreated patients with cervical cancer and with surgical findings in 25 of these and they have defined the CT criteria of pathology.…”

“…Walsh and Goplerud [8] prospectively cor related CT staging with clinical findings in 75 untreated patients with cervical cancer and with surgical findings in 25 of these and they have defined the CT criteria of pathology. We have used their criteria of pathology but with the important modification that an ir regular cervix border was interpreted by us as normal because this is also frequently found in normal subjects [10].…”

“…), without knowledge of the clinical stage. They expressed the extent of the disease in CT stages, using the CT criteria as described by Walsh and Goplerud [8], These criteria were modified in such a way that irregular cervix borders were omit ted from CT stage IIB criteria and the single criterion for CT stage IVB was suspicion of distant métastasés.…”