How Does My Doctor Screen for Uterine Fibroids?
Doctors screen for uterine fibroids by doing a pelvic exam; if the uterus feels large or irregular, fibroids may be present. In this video, OB/GYN specialist Evelyn Minaya, MD, explains how additional screenings with pelvic ultrasounds are performed.
Transcript
Your doctor usually screens for uterine fibroids
by a pelvic examination. In other words, if you go in for your annual exam, we can actually palpate the uterus
and find it to be a little bulky, which means that it's large and irregular. This could be a sign that you have fibroids.
So if your doctor does feel that you have an irregular shaped uterus, one of the things that we can do
is send you for a pelvic ultrasound. Now there are two types of ultrasound, which is the same thing as a sonogram.
There's one from above, which is called an abdominal and a pelvic sonogram. And then, there's one from below, which is called a transvaginal ultrasound.
The reason that we do both things is for completion. If you do have small fibroids, we'll be able to see it on a transvaginal approach.
If you have a very big fibroids, it's much easier, believe it or not, to see it from about.
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