ReviewCancers2024
Systematic Review-Role of MRI in Cervical Cancer Staging.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- International Western Radiation Therapy Guidelines Applicability in Low- and Middle-Income Countries for Cervical Cancer Management: A Comparative Survey Example from South and North Border of the Mediterranean Area Countries.Advances in radiation oncology · 2026Article
- Advanced cervical cancer and its complications: a cross-sectional imaging review.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2026Review
- Prognostic Value of Combined FDG PET and MRI Analysis of Cervical Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical radiation sciences · 2026Review
- Preoperative assessment of tumor size by MRI and ultrasound in cervical cancer: a large-scale retrospective comparative study.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2026Article
- MRI in deciphering the superficial spread of cervical squamous cell carcinoma into the uterine corpus: A case report and literature review.Oncoscience · 2026Article
- Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer: Multiparametric MRI in Gynecologic Oncology and Precision Medicine.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Reliability study of MRI in detecting lymph node metastasis of cervical cancer: a multi-center retrospective study result analysis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Management of Women with Low-Risk Early-Stage Cervical Cancer: A Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Enhancing cervical cancer diagnosis with ensemble learning and shark optimization algorithm: comparative study of CT and MRI in cervical cancer diagnosis.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Updates on Imaging of Common Urogenital Neoplasms.Cancers · 2024Article
- Uterine Cervical Cancer: Diagnostic Accuracy of Clinical Staging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Histopathology Findings.Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery researchArticle
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Abstract
A systematic review of the diagnostic accuracy of MRI in the staging of cervical cancer was conducted based on the literature from the last 5 years. A literature search was performed in the Cochrane Library, EMBASE, MEDLINE and PubMed databases using the MeSH terms "cervical cancer", "MRI" and "neoplasm staging". A total of 110 studies were identified, of which 8 fit the inclusion criteria. MRI showed adequate accuracy (74-95%) and high sensitivity (92-100%) in assessing stromal invasion. The data for MRI in terms of assessing vaginal and pelvic side wall involvement were wide ranging and inconclusive. In assessing lymph node metastasis, MRI showed an adequate accuracy (73-90%), specificity (75-91%) and NPV (71-96%) but poor sensitivity (52-75%) and PPV (52-75%). MRI showed high accuracy (95%), sensitivity (78-96%), specificity (87-94%), and NPV (98-100%) but poor PPV (27-42%) in detecting bladder involvement. There was a paucity of data on the use of MRI in assessing rectal involvement in cervical cancer. Overall, the literature was heterogenous in the definitions and language used, which reduced the comparability between articles. More research is required into the diagnostic accuracy of MRI in the staging of cervical cancer and there must be increased consistency in the definitions and language used in the literature.
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