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The Ovarian Endometrioma: Clinical Setting and Ultrasound Findings

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Ovarian endometrioma is defined as a pseudocyst arising from growth of ectopic endometrial tissue. The typical features of endometriomas are diffuse low-level internal echoes (“ground glass”) in the absence of particular neoplastic features and with a clear demarcation from ovarian parenchyma. Several studies report very high values of specificity with values of sensitivity usually ranging from 87 to 77 %.

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Guerriero, S. et al. (2013). The Ovarian Endometrioma: Clinical Setting and Ultrasound Findings. In: Saba, L., Acharya, U., Guerriero, S., Suri, J. (eds) Ovarian Neoplasm Imaging. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8633-6_4

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