What does the following mean? 'Lt ovary appears to contain an echopoor area of 32x22mms? corpus luteum? haemorrhagic cyst'.
Ultrasound scans uses sound waves to give a picture of internal structures.
The sound is reflected back by different structures in different ways depending upon whether they are solid, liquid or gas, and white or grey images are seen.
An area described as 'echopoor' means that few or no echoes are coming from that area, and in the ovary the likely cause of this is a corpus luteum cyst (what remains of a follicle when the egg has been released) or a haemorrhagic cyst (cyst with blood within it).
Although both a corpus luteum cyst and a haemorrhagic cyst can cause pain, most will resolve spontaneously with no treatment.
Without knowing what symptoms you have had, and why the ultrasound was done, it is difficult to give you definite information based on this report.
The usual plan would be for the scan to be repeated at a different stage in your menstrual cycle to see if the findings had changed.
It certainly doesn't sound as though there is anything for you to be concerned about in this report.
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