European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

Background & Method: The aim of this study is to study the incidence of palpable abdominal mass in Gynaecological patients. All the patient coming with palpable abdominal and pelvic adnexal mass in the gynecologic OPD were included in the study irrespective of age, parity, symptomatology, marital status, etc.
Result: The incidence of malignant tumor was 16.66%. The maximum age group being > 40 years.  The incidence of abdominal mass associated with pregnancy was 5.76%.
Conclusion: As patients usually come from low socioeconomic status in our hospital, majority of them were illiterate. Patients usually present late when they have symptoms or have any complication. Hence proper screening of the patient is important. Ultrasound is effective in detecting the abdominal mass, size and type of abdominal mass, so that early diagnosis can be done and treatment can be given as soon as possible. With proper selection, the size of an ovarian cyst does not necessarily constitute a contraindication for laparascopic surgery