Cyst vs. Tumor Diagnosis Causes Symptoms Comments More It is impossible to distinguish between an ovarian cyst from a tumor from symptoms alone Ovarian cysts are fluid-filled sacs that may come and go with your menstrual cycle, while ovarian tumors are solid masses that do not go ...
UltrasoundOvarian cystOvarian torsionVGG-16Fine-tuningOvaries play a vital role in the female reproductive system as they are responsible for the production of egg or ovum required during the fertilization. The female ovaries very often get affected with cyst. An enlarged ovarian cyst can lead to ...
Dermoid cyst:A dermoid cyst is a benign tumor sometimes referred to as mature cystic teratoma. It is an abnormal cyst that usually affects younger women and may grow to 6 inches in diameter. A dermoid cyst can contain other types of body tissues such as fat and occasionally bone, hair, an...
If your ultrasound and any other tests lead your doctor to suspect that your cyst is cancer, they can do surgery to remove the ovary your cyst is in or on. That’s the only way to know for sure if you have ovarian cancer. A surgeon can’t find out by removing just the cyst, beca...
Oncologic surgical principles must be always followed even in those women whose mass has low suspicion for malignancy. The surgical technique must be adapted to the characteristics of the cyst and the patient. Experts should try to teach young surgeons the proper surgical technique in order to make...
Objective:To probe a way for treating the ovarian cyst.Methods:Sclerotherapy was applied to 43 patients with ovarian cysts by percutaneous puncture for injecting anhydrous alcohol under ultrasound guidance.Results:Fourty three cases with 43 cysts were effective.Cysts disappeared in 32 cases after one ...
On the contrary, in the last years the concept of indeterminate mass at ultrasound has completely revolutionized introducing a more objective definition. In fact, using International Ovarian Tumor Analysis approach, and in particular the Simple Rules (SR), we can objectively define indeterminate masses...
(Fig.2). There were statistically significant differences between the recurrence group and the non-recurrence group in tumor size (7.3 ± 3.7 versus 5.8 ± 2.9 cm,p = 0.041), cyst characteristics (unilocular versus multilocular,p = 0.041), initial CA125 level (99.3...
The vast majority of protein-based tumor markers are produced not only by cancerous but also non-neoplastic normal cells; CA125 is produced by mesothelial cells (i.e. peritoneum and pleura) and hence benign or inflammatory processes can result in aberrant elevations of serum CA125. Recently, ...
Objectives: To determine the sonographic characteristics of borderline tumors (BoTs) and cystadenofibromas (CAFs). Methods: Preoperative sonograms from consecutive patients who had at least one primary epithelial tumor in the adnexa were retrospectively collected. All tumors were described using the ...