Cervical cancer chest x ray

Overview

Chest radiography (CXR) can be used in suspected lung metastases in the advanced stage of cervical cancer.

X-ray

Chest radiography (CXR) use is very limited in intial work up for women with cervical cancer, because the rate of metastasis to lung is very low and only happens in advanced stage of cervical cancer. On chest radiographs of patient with distant metastasis to lung, pulmonary nodules can be seen.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ Ki, Eun Young; Lee, Keun Ho; Park, Jong Sup; Hur, Soo Young (2016). “A Clinicopathological Review of Pulmonary Metastasis from Uterine Cervical Cancer”. Cancer Research and Treatment. 48 (1): 266–272. doi:10.4143/crt.2014.206. ISSN 1598-2998.
↑ Liu, Xuefeng; Hoogendam, Jacob P.; Zweemer, Ronald P.; Verkooijen, Helena M.; de Jong, Pim A.; van den Bosch, Maurice A. A. J.; Verheijen, René H. M.; Veldhuis, Wouter B. (2015). “No Value for Routine Chest Radiography in the Work-Up of Early Stage Cervical Cancer Patients”. PLOS ONE. 10 (7): e0131899. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131899. ISSN 1932-6203.

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