Cross-sectional imaging of the pelvic tumors and tumor-like lesions in gynecologic patients-misinterpretation points and differential diagnosis.
Computed tomography and/or magnetic resonance imaging were performed in 42 female patients with suspected pelvic mass. Surgical and histopathological reports were compared to the imaging findings, yielding mismatch in five (17.8%) patients. One benign cyst and one case of postirradiation fibrosis were characterized as recurrent tumors, one surgically transposed ovary as metastasis, and an ovarian torsion as ovarian tumor, and a pelvic hematoma was mistaken for abscess. The most common false-positive finding on a per-lesion basis was that of enlarged lymph nodes.
Padovan
Ranka Stern
RS
Clinical Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Kralik
Marko
M
Prutki
Maja
M
Hrabak
Maja
M
Oberman
Bozidar
B
Potocki
Kristina
K
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005833:Genital Neoplasms, Female / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D010386:Pelvic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed