The main causes for the missed and delayed diagnosis of endometrial carcinoma / 中国医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the main causes of the missed and delayed diagnosis of endometrial carcinomas.Methods Endometrial carcinoma and missed and delayed diagnosis were used as key words to search in the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure and Wanfang Data.Results There were 37 cases with details.Among these,10 cases were caused by false negative D&C (27.0％ of the total);14 cases were caused by misdiagnosis as uterine benign disease (37.8％ of the total);13 cases were caused by the overlooking of the primary symptoms because of the advanced diseases.Conclusions Paying more attention to the symptoms of endometrial carcinomas is necessary to reduce the missed and delayed diagnosis of endometrial carcinoma.