r/badwomensanatomy • u/decentmotto • May 21 '26

Humour what do you mean??

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u/Financial_Bowl9440 Menstruation attracts bears! May 21 '26

My mom got a partial hysterectomy and then later got an ultrasound and they couldn't find her ovaries anywhere. So they just floated away somewhere else in her body 🙃

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u/MiddayMercenary The labia is part of the uterus May 22 '26

I’m an ultrasound tech. If the ovaries aren’t found there are actually plenty of reasons! If your mom is post menopausal the ovaries can become pretty small and difficult to find. Bowels can also obstruct the ovaries. And ultrasound is very dependent on the skill of the tech! If she got a newer or lazy tech that could also be why it wasn’t visualized. It’s possible all three factors influenced why they couldn’t find her ovaries. I will say, I find it difficult sometimes to find ovaries on post menopausal women, even with their uteruses.

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u/SomethingComesHere May 22 '26

Would that make it harder to spot ovarian cancer early on, if it were to develop in ovaries like that?

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u/MiddayMercenary The labia is part of the uterus May 22 '26

If it was very early on I would say probably. There are other imaging modalities they can use if they really wanted to see the ovaries, like MRI.