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Consecutive patients with an adnexal mass underwent standardized transvaginal two\u2010dimensional (2D) grayscale and color or power Doppler and 3D power Doppler ultrasound examination by an experienced examiner, and those with a \u2018difficult\u2019 tumor were included in the current analysis. A difficult tumor was defined as one in which the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) logistic regression model\u20101 (LR\u20101) yielded an ambiguous result (risk of malignancy, 8.3% to 25.5%), or as one in which the ultrasound examiner was uncertain regarding classification as benign or malignant when using subjective assessment. Even when the ultrasound examiner was uncertain, he\/she was obliged to classify the tumor as most probably benign or most probably malignant. For each difficult tumor, one researcher created a 360\u00b0 rotating 3D power Doppler image of the vessel tree in the whole tumor and another of the vessel tree in a 5\u2010cm<jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup> spherical volume selected from the most vascularized part of the tumor. Two other researchers, blinded to the patient's history, 2D ultrasound findings and histological diagnosis, independently described the vessel tree using predetermined vessel features. Their agreed classification was used. The reference standard was the histological diagnosis of the mass. The sensitivity of each test for discriminating between benign and malignant difficult tumors was plotted against 1\u2009\u2013\u2009specificity on a receiver\u2010operating\u2010characteristics diagram, and the test with the point furthest from the reference line was considered to have the best diagnostic ability.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Of 2403 women with an adnexal mass, 376 (16%) had a difficult mass. Ultrasound volumes were available for 138 of these cases. In 79\/138 masses, the ultrasound examiner was uncertain about the diagnosis based on subjective assessment, in 87\/138, IOTA LR\u20101 yielded an ambiguous result and, in 28\/138, both methods gave an uncertain result. Of the masses, 38\/138 (28%) were malignant. Among tumors that were difficult to classify as benign or malignant by subjective assessment, the vessel feature \u2018densely packed vessels\u2019 had the best discriminative ability (sensitivity 67% (18\/27), specificity 83% (43\/52)) and was slightly superior to subjective assessment (sensitivity 74% (20\/27), specificity 60% (31\/52)). In tumors in which IOTA LR\u20101 yielded an ambiguous result, subjective assessment (sensitivity 82% (14\/17), specificity 79% (55\/70)) was superior to the best vascular feature, i.e. changes in the diameter of vessels in the whole tumor volume (sensitivity 71% (12\/17), specificity 69% (48\/70)).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Vessel morphology depicted by 3D power Doppler ultrasound may slightly improve discrimination between benign and malignant adnexal tumors that are difficult to classify by subjective ultrasound assessment. For tumors in which the IOTA LR\u20101 model yields an ambiguous result, subjective assessment is superior to vessel morphology as a second\u2010stage test. \u00a9 2020 The Authors. 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