Optional medical device diagnostics – depending on the results of the history, physical examination, laboratory diagnostics, and obligatory medical device diagnostics – for differential diagnostic clarification.
- Vaginal sonography (ultrasound by means of an ultrasound probe inserted into the vagina) – as basic gynecological diagnostics (in particular, imaging of the ovaries (ovaries) due to possible follicular persistence (failure of ovulation of a follicle that is ready to burst); this stimulates excessive growth of the endometrium (lining of the uterus) through constant estrogen production and at the same time leads to proliferation (growth) of the mammary gland tissue with the consequence of mastodynia (cycle-dependent feelings of tightness in the breasts or Breast pain))