How a Basketball-Size Cyst Eluded Doctors

A young woman in England who repeatedly went to see her doctor because she was having pain and a feeling of fullness in her abdomen was told that her symptoms were due to her obesity. At the hospital, the woman had an ultrasound exam, and the images showed that she had a very large cyst on her ovary, according to the case report, published online (Jan. 28) in the journal BMJ Case Reports. All it took was a simple ultrasound scan to show that there was something wrong with this patient, said Dr.