What causes female cysts?

Female cysts are a common gynecological disease in women. Generally, cysts tend to grow in women's ovaries, which can cause great harm to women's health. They can also easily lead to other complications. There are many causes of female cysts. Generally, they are caused by improper diet or endocrine disorders, which are a symptom caused by the body. They are very harmful to the body.

What causes female cysts?

First, environmental factors. The occurrence of ovarian cysts is directly related to bad eating habits. Nowadays, many women have the habit of smoking and drinking, coupled with unreasonable diet and high cholesterol, which leads to an increasing incidence of ovarian cysts.

Second, endocrine disorders. Most women suffer from ovarian cysts due to endocrine disorders. Modern women are under great pressure in both work and life. Women who live in a high-pressure environment for a long time are more likely to develop gynecological tumors. Because most of these women have endocrine disorders and low immune function, various gynecological diseases will develop.

Third, hormonal influence. If women take hormones for a long time, their chances of developing ovarian cysts will become very high. Nowadays, many vegetables in cities are grown with hormones, and some women take diet pills in order to lose weight quickly. These are the causes of ovarian cysts.

How to treat cysts

First, treatment of benign cysts

1. General treatment

If it is a simple cyst, without septa, intracystic papillae, calcification and other complex features, it is basically benign and can be observed conservatively. The cyst will usually be smaller or gone when you check it out again 4-8 weeks later. If the cyst does not disappear, but ultrasound shows that it is still a simple cyst, you can still continue to observe closely. If physiological ovarian cysts are accompanied by endocrine symptoms such as menstrual disorders, oral medications can be used to alleviate the symptoms. However, for pathological cysts, no oral medications with clear therapeutic effects have been found so far.

2. Surgical treatment

Ovarian cystectomy is often performed on young patients, especially premenopausal patients, while preserving normal ovarian tissue as much as possible.

Salpingo-oophorectomy: For older women (over 45 years old) or postmenopausal women, unilateral or bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy can be performed.

Second, treatment of malignant cysts

For cysts that are considered malignant or have unclear diagnosis, the resected material should be sent for pathological examination after surgery to determine the nature of the cyst under a microscope before considering the next step of treatment. If an ovarian cyst shows complications such as torsion, rupture, bleeding, or infection, emergency surgery should be performed.

Most patients are already in the late stage of the disease when they seek medical treatment, so during treatment, every effort should be made to remove the primary cyst and visible pelvic and abdominal metastases. Currently, a blanket-style removal of the uterus and tumor along with the pelvic peritoneum is often used, such as omentectomy, partial intestinal resection, partial bladder resection, and ureter resection. Consideration should also be given to placing a catheter in the peritoneal cavity to facilitate postoperative intraperitoneal injection of chemotherapy drugs.