Ultrasonic Assessment of Ovarian Lesions

Abstract

During the period from August 2008 to February 2009 seventy four female patients were admitted to Al –Zahra teaching hospital- Kut- Wassit and scanned by pelvic and abdominal ultra sonography for various complaints to assess the cause of the pelvic pathology and to determine the ovarian status . All these patients were subjected to surgery and after that their histopathological findings were studied and analyzed for sonographic accuracy. The diagnostic accuracy of ultra sound in this study was 81.1% in the characterization and proper description of the ovarian lesions. Thus it seems to be ultra sound is a good tool as being the primary imaging modality in a patient with suspected pelvic mass by identifying the origin and the nature of the pelvic mass.