Hemorrhagic ovarian cyst

What it means

An abdominal mass formed by bleeding into a follicular ovarian cyst or corpus luteum cyst.

The clinical signs and symptoms of hemorrhagic ovarian cyst (HOC) are variable and include such patients as asymptomatic cases or patients showing symptoms of acute abdomen. HOC is detected as pelvic masses by ultrasonography, but it is often misdiagnosed with other organic masses because of its variable clinical and sonographic findings, and in some cases may lead to laparotomy.

Rare diseases that can present with this3

The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.

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