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Even though the frequency is different from country to country, uterine cervical carcinoma is one of the common malignancies affecting female genital tract and leading cause of death of women. The increased knowledge in surgical techniques, radiation treatment, and recent advances in chemotherapy requires a more clear staging of the disease. Because it is easy to find abnormal squamous cells by using a Papanicolaou smear, the prevalence of invasive squamous cell carcinoma has decreased. Cervical cancer is an important disease from clinical, surgical, radiologic, and sociologic perspectives and can serve as a model of how the combined use of screening, staging, surgery, and therapy can control and possibly even eradicate this cancer. Despite the controversies regarding the choice of therapy, there is uniform agreement on the need for information regarding the size and the stage of the disease at presentation. The value of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is the precision with which it can stage cervical cancer, and it is better than computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound, and even better than clinical staging. In this chapter, we consider MR imaging of uterine cervical cancer, focusing on the role of MR in the preoperative staging of cervical cancer.
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Lee, H.J., Kim, S.H. (2010). Uterine Cervical Carcinoma: Preoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Staging. In: Hayat, M. (eds) Methods of Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis. Methods of Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy and Prognosis, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2918-8_20
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