Diagnostic possibilities of laparoscopy in ovarian cysts

: Laparoscopy was used for the diagnosis of ovarian cysts in 90 patients. Ovarian cysts detected by ultrasonic examination, sterility, suspected external genital endometriosis were the indications for laparoscopy. In 32 cases the cysts were found in laparoscopy. In 23 patients a diagnostic puncture of the cyst and a subsequent cytologic examination were carried out. All the patients in whom ovarian cysts were diagnosed were operated on (endoscopically or via laparoscopy). Laparoscopic diagnoses coincided with the histologic findings in examinations of the removed formations in 100% of cases.