Thin walled avascular anechoic cyst

[Donusgul]

So I got my second scan done today and I was wondering if anyone has had thin walled avascular anechoic cyst with daughter cyst 🤔 I’ve literally have never heard of this before and would love to know if anyone has had it and what exactly is it?

[asoullessstatic]

So…for full disclosure I am not a doctor but I am a medical research dr so I’ve done a medical degree before going into research, so I’ll try and break down what the words mean.

Thin walled means that the walls of the cyst are thin, avascular means that the cyst has not got blood vessels in the walls. So the wall of the cyst are thin, and lack blood supply. Anechoic is an ultrasound term which means that no echo was detected from the cyst, so it appeared black on the ultrasound. On an ultra sound the denser the tissue the whiter it appears, so very dense things appear white, tissues appear a shades of grey, and fluid is always black. So if the cyst is anechoic, then it is almost certainly filled with fluid. So a thin walled avascular anechoic cyst (or in normal English a thin walled cyst with little to blood supply filled with fluid) just is a description of the characteristics of the cyst. A daughter cyst is a smaller cyst that has developed in the wall of a larger cyst, so it’s a cyst with in a cyst.

[Donusgul in reply to asoullessstatic]

Thank you so much for the Information asoullessstatic, I really do appreciate it. Makes much more sense now. I know you are not a doctor but really would like your advice. Do you know if this could be endo related? Because the cyst I had before which was on my left ovary the dr had said it looked like a borderline Tumor but now that cyst is not there and I have this new one 🤔 if you have checked my other posts too I have another scan report which I had uploaded. Both very different cyst 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’m just so confused. Drs keep on saying different things to me. One said it was Endometriomas cyst one said borderline tumor one said it’s just a normal cyst and now this 🤷‍♀️ and this has all been said since March 🤦🏻‍♀️ luckily I see my surgeon on the 7th of November

[asoullessstatic in reply to Donusgul]

It could be endo related, it could be that the endo is causing cysts, or that the cysts are unrelated but also causing trouble. Endometriosis and cystic ovaries can often go hand in hand and from what I have seen reading the medical research papers. A multiocular cyst is a cyst that contains several different compartments separated by membranes. Normally when they’re looking at a cyst they asses if its is potentially tumourgenic by looking at the wall, is it thin and avascular, then they don’t worry much about it from that point of view, if its vascular and the wall is thick and or irregular, it might give them cause to be a little more concerned and check it out more closely. It is known that you can have more than one type of cyst or cysts that may develop differently depending on exactly where they are and how long they have been there and how big they are. It’s a bit like acne as a teenager sometimes you’d get big red monsters and sometimes black heads and sometimes everything in between all at the same time.

I think one thing that people often forget, is inside where everything is going on is living tissue, its constantly changing slightly every day and an ultra sound gives you a snap shot of what it looks like in that moment, in a years’ time it might be that a cyst has disappeared but another one has grown, or it’s shrunk or got bigger or changed, and that’s natural because your body is always kinda changing a wee bit all the time. An ultrasound is after all just photograph of your insides taken with sound waves.

Take all of these reports with you to your surgeon, and maybe highlight the bits you want to discuss with him. The most useful thing I found doing with my GP which helped get me my referral to gyno, is I went in with a list of questions and points I wanted to discuss written down, and an agenda for what I wanted to talk about to keep me on track and make sure I covered everything and left with answers to everything I wanted. There’s nothing wrong or annoying about wanting to entirely understand everything that’s being written, but medical language is so inaccessible half the time and it’s something I deeply dislike about both medicine and science.

[Donusgul in reply to asoullessstatic]

Honestly you have put my mind on ease sooo much I can’t thank you enough. All the different things the doctors have said just confused me more than ever. I really appreciate it and understand it all much more better now, at least I now know what kind of questions to ask the surgeon next week. It all makes more sense. Thank you 😌