“…Since the mid-1970s, attempts have been made to identify criteria in the ultrasound image which allow the preoperative assessment of adnexal tumor status [7,9,13]. To facilitate the differentiation between benign and malignant adnexal processes, by the end of the 1980s schematized numerical scores were introduced, permitting the lucid, practicable and reproducible assessment of adnexal tumors [8,14,23,24,27].…”