The physician asked further questions.
It is always important to establish whether the patient is pregnant (occasionally, pregnancy may come as a surprise to the patient).
This patient’s pregnancy test was negative. After the patient emptied her bladder, there was no change in the mass. The physician thought the mass might be a common benign tumor of the uterus (fibroid). To establish the diagnosis, he obtained an ultrasound scan of the pelvis, which confirmed that the mass stemmed from the uterus.