Priyanka Jha, MBBS, associate professor of clinical radiology, recently led a team of investigators who studied the diagnostic performance of the Ovarian-Adnexal Reporting and Data System (O-RADS). They found that the ultrasound risk stratification system performed within the expected range specified by the American College of Radiology (ACR).
“Our study found that the O-RADS ultrasound (US) score of four was the optimum cutoff for diagnosing ovarian cancer, and the calculated frequency of malignant neoplasm for each of the O-RADS US score fell within the lower end of the expected range,” says Dr. Jha. “This means that our findings validated O-RADS utilization for everyday general practice
Findings were recently published in JAMA Network Open.
In the case of pelvic ultrasounds, when adnexal lesions (growths in or near the ovaries) are found, it’s important to classify…
