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The corpus luteum is formed when the follicle releases the ovum at ovulation, when there is always some bleeding. If the bleeding is excessive, a corpus luteum cyst develops.
Corpus luteum cysts may be tender on palpation and cause pain in one or other iliac fossa. Haemorrhage into a corpus luteum cyst or rupture of a cyst is a cause of acute abdomen and can be difficult to distinguish from such diagnoses as torsion.
See under ovarian cysts and tumours, non-neoplastic functional cyst types.
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