Pre-operative evaluation of epithelial ovarian cancer patients: Role of whole body diffusion weighted imaging MR and CT scans in the selection of patients suitable for primary debulking surgery. A single-centre study

摘要

Purpose: to evaluate the accuracy of Whole Body MRI including Diffusion-Weighted Imaging sequences (WB DWI MR) in the assessment of sites of disease in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), in comparison to CT; to evaluate whether a clinical-radiological score may predict suboptimal cytoreductive surgery.