Kathy Huang - What happened to pelvic MRI to detect DIE pre-op? A comparison between the expert versus the general radiologist
EFA’s Sixth Annual Medical Conference: Ending Endometriosis Starts at the Beginning
What happened to pelvic MRI to detect DIE pre-op? A comparison between the expert versus the general radiologist
Kathy Huang, MD
Thank you for inviting me here to have an opportunity to present our research. We have been looking at MRIs as a diagnostic tool. I started at NYU probably 18 months ago.
Initially, when I first came along we were talking about whether we should use ultrasound. Obviously clinical examination is very important; however, we do not have ultrasonographers that were trained for this and we have an awesome MRI department because our MRI department apparently has been around forever and they have always used…imaging. I started talking to our radiologist because we started to have more and more endometriosis patients and even before I moved to NYU we had several patients who had rectovaginal endometriosis or bowel endometriosis that we did not recognize before surgery so intra-operatively we are finding these lesions. Because I did not consent them for bowel resection or nodule removal we really could not complete it, we had to bring the patients back for a second time, which is really a…