The ovarian endometrioma: Clinical setting and ultrasound findings

Abstract

Ovarian endometrioma is defined as a pseudocyst arising from growth of ectopic endometrial tissue. The typical features of endometriomas are diffuse low- level internal echoes (“ground glass”) in the absence of particular neoplastic features and with a clear demarcation from ovarian parenchyma. Several studies report very high values of specificity with values of sensitivity usually ranging from 87 to 77 %.