4 Imaging techniques for fibroid detection

Abstract

Ultrasound imaging techniques, both transabdominal and transvaginal, are the most accurate and widely used imaging modalities in the detection and characterization of uterine leiomyomas. The diagnosis of these tumours may be enhanced using ultrasound-guided uterine biopsy and hysterosonography. Magnetic resonance imaging provides accurate imaging information, but its cost and lack of significant superiority over ultrasound have hitherto limited its use. Computerized tomography, plain X-ray, and hysterosalpingography have little to offer in the assessment of fibroids.