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Ovarian cancer is the second most common gynecologic malignancy, but is the most common cause of death among gynecologic malignancies. This poor prognosis is largely because there are no obvious signs or symptoms in the early stage. Although early manifestation through hormonal activity can be present in the case of sex cord-stromal cell tumors, epithelial cell tumors (the most common ovarian tumor) rarely have hormonal activity and the clinical symptoms such as a palpable pelvic mass or abdominal distension occur after the advanced stage develops. In this chapter, we review the general considerations of ovarian cancer including its classification, staging, and mode of the spread and discuss the role of imaging in the pretreatment evaluation of ovarian cancer. We also discuss the role of cross-sectional imaging in the followup of women with ovarian cancer and illustrate variable imaging features of recurrent ovarian cancer.
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Moon, M.H. (2012). Introduction. In: Kim, S. (eds) Radiology Illustrated: Gynecologic Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05325-2_25
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