Ultrasound and Histopathologic Correlation of Ovarian Cystadenofibromas: Diagnostic Value of the "Shadow Sign".

Ilan E Timor-TritschEsther YoonAna MonteagudoJeanine CiaffaranoCaroline BrandonKushbakhat R MittalRobert C WallachLeslie R Boyd

Published in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2019)

This US marker helps in differentiating CAFs from borderline ovarian tumors, which do not show this US feature. We hope that recognizing the suggested shadow sign as an additional descriptor of CAFs will lead to minimizing their unnecessary removal and eliminating additional and unnecessary imaging by computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.

Keyphrases

magnetic resonance imaging
computed tomography
contrast enhanced
high resolution
positron emission tomography
machine learning
deep learning
dual energy
ultrasound guided
pet ct