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Patients with suspected EOC were recruited and underwent comprehensive transvaginal and abdominal ultrasonography performed by a gynecological oncologist. Sixteen intra-abdominal localizations and parameters were assessed using ultrasonography and compared with surgical-pathological status (reference standard). Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, and overall accuracy were calculated. Differences were analyzed using Fisher\u2019s exact and chi-square tests. Ultimately, we included 132 patients (median age 62 years), of whom 67% were in stage IIIC\u2013IVB and 72% had serous cancer. Overall prediction accuracies for the involvement of the omentum, small bowel mesentery root, and frozen pelvis, and detecting ascites were &gt;90%. Detecting the involvement of the pelvis peritoneum, liver and spleen hilum, and rectosigmoid colon, and predictions of disease stage and residual disease had overall accuracies of 80\u201390%. The lowest accuracy was for involvement of the abdominal peritoneum (69%) and diaphragm peritoneum (right 71%; left 75%) and surgical complexity prediction (77%). Stratification of results by presence or absence of ascites revealed significantly higher specificity of ultrasonography (clinically meaningful) for assessments of the abdominal\/pelvic peritoneum, spleen hilum, and rectum wall, if there were ascites. 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