Oral contraceptives for functional ovarian cysts.

@article{Grimes2011OralCF,
  title={Oral contraceptives for functional ovarian cysts.},
  author={David A. Grimes and Lashawn B Jones and Laureen M. Lopez and Kenneth F. Schulz},
  journal={The Cochrane database of systematic reviews},
  year={2011},
  volume={9},
  pages={
          CD006134
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:21185332}
}
Although widely used for treating functional ovarian cysts, combined oral contraceptives appear to be of no benefit and watchful waiting for two or three cycles is appropriate.
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