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- Imaging
- • Chest x-ray.
- • CT and MRI scans of the abdomen and pelvis.
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- Endoscopy and Biopsy
- • Cystoscopy .
- • Sigmoidoscopy .
- • All women with an abnormal Pap smear or cervical lesions should undergo an office colposcopic examination.
- A colposcope is an instrument that can magnify the cervix from 7.5 to 15 times.
- • The definitive diagnosis is made on a biopsy. Early cancers are occasionally diagnosed by a large biopsy of the
- cervix, known as a cone biopsy . A cervical conization should be done when colposcopy cannot determine if
- there is not an invasive cancer , when there are no obvious lesions on the cervix and the Pap smear is
- consistently abnormal, when a colposcopically directed biopsy does not adequately account for abnormal cells
- found on a Pap smear, when a diagnosis of microinvasion (early invasion) is found on the biopsy or when a
- cervical intraepithelial neoplasia is identified by a scraping from the cervical canal (endocervical curettage).
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