What are the symptoms of ovarian tumors

The ovaries are the female reproductive system and the place where life begins. However, many women are troubled by ovarian diseases nowadays, and ovarian tumors are one of the more serious diseases. If you want to detect ovarian tumors early, you must understand the clinical manifestations of ovarian tumors. Here we will introduce the clinical manifestations of ovarian tumors.

1. Discomfort in the lower abdomen: This is the initial symptom before the patient feels a mass in the lower abdomen. Due to the weight of the tumor itself and the influence of intestinal peristalsis and changes in body position, the tumor moves in the pelvic cavity, pulling on its pedicle and pelvic funnel ligament, causing the patient to feel distension and falling in the lower abdomen or iliac fossa.

2. Abdominal pain: If the tumor has no complications, there is very little pain. Therefore, if patients with ovarian tumors feel pain, especially if it occurs suddenly, it is mostly caused by the twisting of the tumor pedicle, or occasionally by tumor rupture, bleeding or infection. In addition, malignant ovarian tumors often cause abdominal pain and leg pain, and the pain often causes patients to seek emergency treatment.

3. Increased abdominal circumference and abdominal mass: These are the most common complaints. The patient notices that his clothes or belt seem too tight, and then notices the enlargement of the abdomen, or feels it by chance in the morning, so he touches his abdomen and finds a mass in the abdomen, and then seeks medical attention due to abdominal distension and discomfort.

4. Menstrual disorders: Except for tumors with endocrine effects, ovarian tumors, even bilateral ovarian tumors, generally do not cause menstrual disorders because they do not destroy all normal ovarian tissues. Some uterine bleeding is not endocrine, or it is caused by ovarian tumors that change the distribution of pelvic blood vessels, causing endometrial congestion; or it is caused by ovarian malignant tumors directly metastasizing to the endometrium. Menstrual disorders caused by endocrine tumors are often combined with other endocrine effects.

5. Compression symptoms: Huge ovarian tumors can cause dyspnea and palpitations due to compression of the diaphragm. Ovarian tumors combined with a large amount of ascites can also cause this symptom. However, the dyspnea of ​​some ovarian tumor patients is caused by unilateral or bilateral pleural effusion, and is often combined with ascites, forming the so-called Meigs syndrome.

Gynecological experts pointed out that a huge benign ovarian tumor fills the entire abdominal cavity, increasing the intra-abdominal pressure, affecting the venous return of the lower limbs, and can lead to edema of the abdominal wall and bilateral lower limbs; while a malignant ovarian tumor fixed in the pelvic cavity compresses the iliac vein, often causing edema of one lower limb, and sometimes causing edema of both lower limbs at the same time, but one side is often more severe. When the pelvic and abdominal organs are compressed, corresponding symptoms will appear with the affected organs, such as frequent urination due to bladder compression; sometimes because the tumor is incarcerated in the uterine rectal fossa or grows in the broad ligament, it squeezes nearby organs, causing dysuria, urinary retention, urgency or poor bowel movements. Gastrointestinal disorders and indigestion rarely occur in benign tumors, but are often one of the initial symptoms of malignant ovarian tumors, especially those with gastric metastatic tumors. Except for malignant tumors, ovarian tumors generally do not cause symptoms of intestinal compression, probably because most ovarian tumors are cystic or soft enough to block the intestinal cavity.

If you find any of the above symptoms, it is best to go to the hospital in time for detailed examination, diagnosis and treatment to avoid serious consequences.

Through the above introduction, I believe that everyone has now understood the clinical manifestations of ovarian tumors. Understanding the clinical symptoms of ovarian tumors can help everyone detect ovarian tumors earlier in life so that they can be treated earlier, thus minimizing the harm caused by the disease to patients.