Oral Contraceptive Therapy for Differentiating Ovarian Cysts

1 July 1971

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Postgraduate Medicine

Vol. 50 (1) , 143-145
https://doi.org/10.1080/00325481.1971.11696692

Abstract

“Watchful waiting” to see whether an ovarian cyst in a woman of reproductive age will regress or disappear is perturbing to both patient and physician. Delay in differentiating between a functional and a nonfunctional cyst may be avoided if the physician remembers the pituitary-ovarian relationships in patients receiving an oral contraceptive agent. When a patient is not taking a contraceptive, estrogen-progestogen therapy can be used in an attempt to cause regression of the cyst.

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The Lancet, 1970
CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY
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