Current status and reseach progress of MRI diagnosis of endometriosis malignancy related to ovarian cancer
Endometriosis(EMs)is a chronic pelvic disease that mainly occurs in women of childbearing age and can have a huge impact on women's daily quality of life.When malignant lesions occur in benign EMs lesions,ovarian cancer caused by malignant EMs is clinically referred to as endometriosis associated ovarian cancer(EAOC).Previous studies have not paid enough attention and recognization to the disease that"EMs deteriorates into EAOC".Therefore,how to systematically identify and diagnose this kind of disease through multimodal MRI has become an urgent problem to be solved in clinical practice.Effective early diagnosis can enable patients to get timely intervention treatment,which is crucial to improve the quality of life of patients.In this paper,the clinicopathological features and diagnosis status of these diseases will be introduced,and the characteristic manifestations and application value of different MRI techniques will be detailed,which will help to guide clinicians to diagnose and evaluate the malignant transformation from EMs to EAOC more reasonably and appropriately.
endometriosisendometriosis associated ovarian cancermalignant transformationmultimodal magnetic resonance imagingsummarize