The use of pelvic ultrasound in female patients attending a GUM clinic.
This is a retrospective review of 279 pelvic ultrasound examinations requested over 19 months by a department of GU medicine. An abnormal ultrasound was rarely seen in women with pain but no pelvic mass (16%). If a mass was found on bimanual palpation, the yield of abnormal ultrasound was much higher (52%). Pelvic ultrasound was also useful in refuting a diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy by demonstrating an intrauterine gestational sac.
Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.
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D003151:Community Health Centers; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D010146:Pain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010388:Pelvis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011271:Pregnancy, Ectopic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014463:Ultrasonography