comparison of pelvic examination, pelvic ultrasound and operative findings in ovarian masses

ABSTRACT

To compare and correlate the pelvic examination in adnexal masses with pelvic ultrasound and peroperative findings. June 2006 to May 2007. Descriptive observational study. A sample set of 22 patients with adnexal masses have been included in the study to do a comparative study of the pelvic examination with pelvic ultrasound and peroperative findings. Our analysis show a wide range of diversity among the age groups of our sample set. The majority of the patients [81.8%] belong to the reproductive age group between 20-40 years and only 13% of patients are menopausal. Another important observation is that 87% of all patients visited out patient department with subacute symptoms and remaining 13% presented with acute symptoms in the Emergency Department. Moreover, 54.54% have right-sided adnexal masses and the remaining 45.45% have left-sided adnexal masses. We have seen only in the 9% of cases that the operative findings are different from that of the ultrasound examination. The final outcome of our research is that the ultrasound examination - an important noninvasive investigation - can only be used as a complementary method to the pelvic examination because the findings can be accurately confirmed only on laparoscopy