What are the symptoms of pelvic effusion? Signs of pelvic effusion

Pelvic effusion is a common gynecological disease. Generally, women may suffer from gynecological inflammation at the same time as suffering from pelvic effusion. A small amount of fluid accumulation usually has no symptoms and does not require medication, but if the fluid accumulation is severe, it may be accompanied by pelvic inflammatory disease and adnexitis, as well as pain and a feeling of heaviness on both sides of the lower abdomen.

What are the symptoms of pelvic effusion?

1. Discomfort in the lower abdomen

This is the initial symptom before the patient feels a lower abdominal mass. Due to the weight of the tumor itself and the influence of intestinal peristalsis and changes in body position, the tumor moves in the pelvic cavity, involving its pedicle and pelvic infundibulum ligament, causing the patient to have a feeling of distension and heaviness in the lower abdomen or iliac fossa.

2. Increased abdominal circumference and abdominal mass

The patient realizes that his clothes or belt seem tight and small, and then notices that his abdomen is enlarged, or he accidentally feels it in the morning and presses his abdomen and finds a tumor in his abdomen, coupled with abdominal distension and discomfort. This is the most common symptom.

3. Menstrual disorders

Generally, ovarian or even bilateral ovarian cysts do not cause menstrual disorders because they do not destroy all normal ovarian tissues. Some uterine bleeding is not endocrine or is caused by ovarian tumors that change the pelvic blood vessel distribution and cause endometrial congestion; or it is caused by ovarian malignant tumors directly metastasizing to the endometrium. Menstrual disorders caused by endocrine tumors are often combined with other secretory influences.

4. Abdominal pain

If the tumor has no complications, there is very little pain. Therefore, if patients with ovarian tumors feel abdominal pain, especially if it occurs suddenly, it is mostly caused by torsion of the tumor pedicle, or rupture, bleeding or infection of the tumor. In addition, malignant cysts often cause abdominal pain and leg pain, and the pain often causes patients to seek emergency treatment.