Key facts
- Specialty
- Gynecology
- Symptoms
- None, bloating, lower abdominal pain, lower back pain
- Complications
- Rupture , twisting of the ovary
- Types
- Follicular cyst , corpus luteum cyst , cysts due to endometriosis , dermoid cyst , cystadenoma , ovarian cancer
- Diagnostic method
- Ultrasound
- Prevention
- Hormonal birth control
- Treatment
- Conservative management , pain medication, surgery
- Prognosis
- Usually good
- Frequency
- 8% symptomatic before menopause
via Wikipedia infobox