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David John
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24.04.2022
Beiträge: 277
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Women are born with something like 300,000 to 400,000 eggs. Once a month, one or more of these eggs develop to maturity by the complex mechanism of hormones regulated by the pituitary gland, and these eggs develop within a cyst, called a follicle cyst or a follicular cyst. These follicular cysts are, because they're a function, if you will, of the normal mechanism of the cascade of events that cause the ovulation process - their called functional cysts. Functional cysts are a couple of types. The first one is that the follicular cyst develops about mid-cycle. When the ovulation occurs, that cyst opens up. It releases the egg, and those cysts go away. Those cysts never get very large - mainly a couple of centimeters, as a general rule. They can become bigger.
The second part of the cycle is where the cyst was, a second type of cyst develops, that is called a corpus luteum cyst. This second phase of the menstrual cycle can be associated with a cyst forming where you actually have a fluid-filled corpus luteum cyst. Now, these can be quite large - more than a couple of centimeters. As a rule, they are not. And then, depending on whether or not conception occurs, this cyst will continue to develop and grow to some slight increase in size or there may not be a cyst with it. However, if there is, it's usually a few centimeters, maybe four, five centimeters maximum, as a general rule. The corpus luteum cyst has as a much larger, richer blood supply, and actually can be seen to have blood vessels by the naked eye if you were to look at one. That's going to be important also.
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