A pregnant woman and her unborn baby were saved after a watermelon-sized cyst formed on her ovary. Josephine Hall, 32, was having a normal pregnancy until medics revealed a worrying growth during her 12-week hospital scan.
The mum-of-two was initially advised that the cyst was likely to be benign and so decided to wait to operate. But at 19 weeks pregnant, Josephine found herself in agony and struggling to walk.
She was rushed into hospital for emergency abdominal surgery. Medics found she had an ovarian torsion, a potentially fatal condition where her ovary and fallopian tube had twisted on the tissues that support them, cutting off blood supply.
