Advances in the application of imaging techniques in preoperative staging of cervical cancer

doi:10.3877/cma.j.issn.1673-5250.2023.01.016

Cervical cancer is the most common malignant tumor of female reproductive system. Cervical cancer staging criteria based on clinical practice was updated in 2018, after cervical cancer is the only with clinical stage gynecological malignant tumor, only the latest version of cervical cancer staging system for the first time put forward the results of pathology and the imaging results for staging, in recent years, with the development of imaging techniques, imaging techniques in cervical cancer treatment before checking the application more and more. This article reviews the role of imaging techniques in preoperative staging of cervical cancer.

Key words: Uterine cervical neoplasms, Neoplasm staging, Magnetic resonance imaging, Positron-emission tomography, Tomography, X-ray computed, Ultrasonography, Women

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