Functional Ovarian Cysts: a Multicenter Study of the Current Man-agement Among Iranian Patients

Introduction: ovarian cysts occur in 30% of females with regular menses, 50% of fe-males with irregular menses and 6% of postmenopausal females. aims: in the present study we aimed to compare the actual practice with optimal practice in management of f.o.c. the aim of this study is to find out how many functional ovar-ian cysts are removed in studied gynecologic departments with the current practice.methods and material: in a multi-centric study histopathology of benign ovarian in-volvements of patients coming to 20 hospitals were reviewed from 1998 to 2005. age, sonographic findings and histopathology were recorded.statistical analysis used: analysis was done using spss software (version 13, spss inc., chicago, illinois, usa). statistical analysis of the results were recorded as fre-quency, (mean + sd) and median (range).results: in 2981 patients with benign ovarian histopathology undergoing surgery, 1732 (58.5%) had functional ovarian cysts. among patients with functional ovarian cyst, 1005 (58%) were uncomplicated, followed by 686 patients (39.6%) having hemorrhagic and 41 patients (2.3%) having torsed ovarian cyst.conclusions: our finding suggests more functional ovarian cysts might have avoided surgery, if more strict criteria for surgery were followed in gynecological departments.