title: Cross-sectional imaging of the pelvic tumors and tumor-like lesions in gynecologic patients-misinterpretation points and differential diagnosis.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Ranka Stern
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Padovan
authors.forename: Marko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kralik
authors.forename: Maja
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Prutki
authors.forename: Maja
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hrabak
authors.forename: Bozidar
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Oberman
authors.forename: Kristina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Potocki
mesh_terms: 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