What is a chocolate cyst?

What is chocolate cyst? It is a very common disease among women. This disease is very harmful to women's health. Women can know about this disease through abnormal vaginal discharge. Therefore, women with this disease should seek timely treatment so that the disease can be controlled and will not continue to develop. This type of disease also has some impact on women's fertility.

So what is chocolate cyst? There are some definitions for this disease. The following is a detailed introduction so that you can have a good understanding of this disease and know what treatment method is best for the treatment of the disease.

What is a chocolate cyst?

Chocolate cyst is a "lump" but not a "tumor". It is a lesion of endometriosis. Under normal circumstances, the endometrium grows in the uterine cavity and is affected by female hormones in the body, shed once a month, forming menstruation. If the endometrial fragments shed during menstruation flow back through the fallopian tubes into the pelvic cavity with menstrual blood and implant on the surface of the ovaries or other parts of the pelvic cavity, ectopic cysts will be formed. This ectopic endometrium is also affected by sex hormones and sheds and bleeds repeatedly with the menstrual cycle. If the lesions occur on the ovaries, there will be local bleeding during each menstrual period, which will enlarge the ovaries and form cysts containing old blood. This old blood is brown and sticky like a paste, similar to chocolate, so it is also called "chocolate cyst". The cyst may gradually increase in size and sometimes rupture during or after menstruation, but rarely becomes malignant.

Chocolate cysts can be seen as endometrial-like tissue under hysteroscopy. Because the old blood stasis retained in this cyst is the color of chocolate paste, it is called "chocolate cyst". Although this disease only causes small cysts at the beginning, if treatment is delayed for a long time or medication is not taken, severe abdominal pain will occur before and after each menstruation. Most patients have ectopic endometrial tissue, which, under the influence of ovarian hormones, causes periodic congestion, bleeding, and exfoliation, so it is also called "ovarian endometriosis."

Through the above introduction, we have some understanding of what chocolate cyst is. After the occurrence of such a disease, women must seek timely treatment, otherwise it will affect all aspects of the body and have a great impact on women’s future life. Common treatment methods are drugs and surgery, which should be selected appropriately according to the woman’s disease condition.