Background: This study was designed to evaluate the matching percentage among findings of the ultrasound scans to the magnetic resonance imaging in women with fibroids in Bahrain.Methods: This descriptive, retrospective study was conducted from January 2016 to December 2018 including all the female patients referred from the Gynaecological Department to the Radiological Department in the Bahrain Defense Force Hospital for magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound scan for fibroid evaluation.The data collected included their age, parity and nationality. The StatsDirect software was used to analyze the fibroids according to the site, size, type and number. Results: The average age of the recruited 205 female patients for the study was 43 years, with 81.5%as Bahraini citizens and a mean parity of 2.3. Ultrasound scan findings matched the Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the posterior fibroid sites in 52.5% of cases, followed by anterior (38.1%) and fundal (21.8%). For fibroid size, Ultrasound scans matched Magnetic Resonance Imaging findings in 83.3% for fibroids between >5 to ≤ 10 cm, in 78.3% for fibroids between >2 to ≤ 5cm, and in 36.8% for fibroids sized ≤ 2 cm. Fibroids more than 10cm in size were in agreement for 33.33% of fibroids. Submucosal fibroids matched in just 29.4% of cases, but for the subserosal fibroids, it was 44.8%. The matching score for more than 4 fibroids was 61.8%, followed by single fibroids (54.8%) and lastly for two fibroids (34.8%).Conclusions: Fibroid site and size had the highest matching rates amongst all the categories.
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