Patients' subjective assessment as a decisive predictor of malignancy in pelvic masses: results of a multicentric, prospective pelvic mass study.

CONCLUSIONS: For the first time, our study considered subjective factors in the diagnostic process of pelvic masses. This paper demonstrates that the patients' personal assessment should be taken seriously as it can provide a significant contribution to earlier diagnosis and thus improved therapy and overall prognosis. PMID: 33252280 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33252280?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology - December 1, 2020 Category: OBGYN Tags: J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol Source Type: research