2021
DOI: 10.5114/ms.2021.109511
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Endometrial cyst and its changes during pregnancy – a narrative review of the literature

Abstract: Endometrioma of the ovary (chocolate cyst) is one of the most common tumours of the appendages diagnosed in pregnant patients. In approximately 12% of pregnancies with diagnosed ovarian endometriomas, the process of decidualization, i.e. tumour secretory transformation, occurs under the influence of high progesterone concentrations. Decidualized endometrioma is a benign lesion, but its ultrasound appearance imitates a malignancy; therefore, knowledge of the process and diagnostic possibilities is extremely imp… Show more

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