CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES: Laparoscopy is a diagnostic method that is currently becoming consolidated for therapeutic use. It consists of endoscopically viewing the abdominal cavity. The aim here was to ...

If you have an ovarian cyst and suddenly feel a sharp or intense pain in your lower belly, you might wonder if the cyst has ruptured (broken open). A ruptured ovarian cyst can cause a range of ...

Ovarian cysts, which are small fluid-filled sacs that develop in or on the ovaries, are very common and are usually harmless. In fact, “the process of ovulation—maturing an egg and releasing ...

TORSION of ovarian cysts and tumors occurs often enough for most physicians to be well aware of this entity. That torsion of previously normal ovaries occurs is not so widely known. Because of its ...

In August 2023, after spending a decade plus dreading the arrival of my periods so painful I'd routinely spend days in bed guzzling Nurofen, I sat in a gynaecologist's office as he explained that he ...

A fluid-filled sac that forms in an ovary is called an ovarian cyst. They are highly prevalent and typically symptomless. The majority of ovarian cysts spontaneously disappear within a few months and ...

Mumbai: Doctors saved a 37-year-old woman suffering from intra-abdominal bleeding by removing two litres of blood from her abdomen. The patient had suffered a hemorrhagic ovarian cyst along with a ...

SINGAPORE – Actress Julie Tan shaved her head in November 2023 to play a cancer-stricken social worker in the local movie Good Goodbye. And at the film’s press conference on March 26, the 31-year-old ...

A dermoid cyst is a saclike growth that is present at birth. It contains structures such as hair, fluid, teeth, or skin glands that can be found on or in the skin. Dermoid cysts grow slowly and are ...

Adrenal cyst features indicating possible malignancy on CT include: 1) heterogeneous echotexture, 2) wall thickness greater than 5 mm, and 3) stippled central calcification. 3 Ultrasound examination, ...