Prevalence of Female Pelvic Pathologies: Cross-sectional Study among Patients Undergoing Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Pelvic Assessment
Cross-sectional MRI study of 75 women referred for pelvic assessment found uterine/cervical pathology in 61.3%, adnexal in 42.7%, vaginal in 13.3%, rectal in 6.7%, and bladder in 1.3%, spanning benign lesions and malignancies.
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This cross-sectional study evaluated 75 female patients referred for pelvic MRI at a tertiary hospital over 1 year, using multiple MRI sequences on a 3T scanner and recording age, clinical presentation, and MRI-detected pelvic pathology categories. The study found uterine/cervical pathology in 61.3% of patients and adnexal pathology in 42.7%, with pelvic pain as the most common presenting symptom (50.7%); overall benign pelvic pathologies (82.6%) were more prevalent than malignant (17.4%). Within uterine benign lesions, congenital anomalies (37.0%) and fibroids (26.1%) were common, and adenomyosis was reported in 8.7% of adenomyosis/focal-diffuse classified cases, while endometriosis was also mentioned as detectable by MRI; malignant findings included cervical and endometrial carcinomas. A key limitation is that the paper does not specify how diagnoses were confirmed beyond imaging or detail any sampling/selection bias beyond referral patterns, which may affect prevalence estimates. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it is explicitly cited as an MRI-detectable benign lesion within the study’s stated spectrum of female pelvic pathologies, alongside adenomyosis.
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