What does cystic anechoic ovary mean?

The ovary is a female reproductive organ. Whether it is healthy or not directly affects the female's physical health. When we go to the hospital to check the ovaries, the test report will say that the ovaries are cystic and echo-free. Many women don't understand what kind of data this is? Some experts believe that this data often indicates ovarian cysts. In other words, the possibility of ovarian cysts is very high.

Ovarian cysts refer to cystic masses that appear on the ovaries. The cause of ovarian cysts is still unclear. Ovarian cyst is a type of ovarian tumor, which may be benign or malignant. Therefore, after discovering this disease, the first thing to do is to confirm whether it is benign or malignant. In addition, it should be noted that sometimes the ovaries may show changes similar to cysts, but they are not cysts, such as polycystic ovaries, corpus luteum cysts, endometriosis in the ovaries, etc. Although these diseases will also cause lumps on the ovaries, they are different from ovarian cysts.

The pain in the right lower abdomen should also be distinguished as being caused by a cyst or other diseases such as pelvic inflammation. Pain does not mean that the cyst is getting worse, and there is no absolute relationship between the severity of pain and the extent of the cyst. The more obvious the pain is, the more serious the cyst is not necessarily.

In fact, ovarian cysts have no obvious clinical manifestations in the early stages, and patients are often discovered only during gynecological examinations due to other diseases. Ovarian cysts often present with the following typical symptoms during gynecological examinations:

1. Lower abdominal discomfort: Lower abdominal discomfort is the initial symptom before the patient touches the 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 fullness and falling in the lower abdomen or iliac fossa.

2. Menstrual disorders: Generally, ovarian cysts, even bilateral ovarian cysts, do not cause menstrual disorders because they do not destroy all normal ovarian tissues. Some uterine bleeding is not endocrine in nature. It may be caused by ovarian tumors that change the pelvic blood vessel distribution, causing endometrial congestion; or it may be caused by ovarian malignant tumors directly metastasizing to the endometrium.

3. Compression symptoms: Huge ovarian tumors can cause dyspnea and palpitations due to compression of the diaphragm. Ovarian tumors combined with a large amount of ascites can also cause such symptoms; but some ovarian tumor patients' dyspnea is caused by unilateral or bilateral pleural effusion.

4. Increased abdominal circumference and abdominal swelling: The patient realizes that his clothes or belt seem tight and small, and then he notices the enlargement of his abdomen, or he feels it occasionally in the morning, so he presses his abdomen and finds a swelling in his abdomen, coupled with abdominal distension and discomfort.