What are the symptoms and complications of ovarian cysts?

What are the symptoms of ovarian cysts? What are the complications?

Ovarian cysts have no obvious clinical manifestations in the early stages. Experts say that the symptoms of ovarian cysts are:

1. Abdominal pain: Ovarian tumor torsion, rupture or infection, detachment of uterine fibroids or degeneration of fibroids can cause severe lower abdominal pain.

2. Changes in diet and urine: The early symptoms of ovarian cancer may be just abdominal distension and digestive tract symptoms. Tumor compression or invasion of the bladder and rectum can cause frequent urination, difficulty urinating, dry stools, etc.

3. Menstrual changes: When tumors grow in the uterus, such as uterine fibroids, endometrial cancer, uterine sarcoma, and choriocarcinoma, menstrual abnormalities may occur, including menorrhagia, irregular periods, prolonged menstruation, spotting, etc.

4. Abnormal vaginal discharge: When a female reproductive tract cyst ruptures and becomes necrotic, watery, bloody, or rice-like vaginal discharge may occur. If combined with infection, it may have a peculiar smell.

In fact, untimely treatment of ovarian cysts can lead to the following complications:

1. Cyst rupture: About 3% of ovarian tumors will rupture, and the ovarian tumor pedicles will twist, which is traumatic and spontaneous. After the cyst ruptures, it often causes severe abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, and sometimes causes internal bleeding, peritonitis and shock.

2. Infection: Less common, mainly caused by tumor torsion or rupture, but also from the spread of appendix abscess and other adjacent organ infection. Antibiotics should be used for treatment, followed by surgical removal of the tumor. If the infection cannot be controlled in the short term, surgery should be performed immediately.

3. Pedicle torsion: It is one of the acute abdominal diseases in gynecology. About 10% of ovarian tumors are complicated by pedicle torsion.

4. Malignant changes: Malignant changes of benign ovarian cysts often occur in older women, especially after menopause. The cysts increase rapidly in a short period of time. Patients feel abdominal distension and loss of appetite. The cysts increase significantly in size, become fixed, and contain a lot of ascites.