Very very very strange medical mystery. Any guesses?

[Diemme]

I know this sounds unbelievable but around 25 years ago I had emergency surgery for excuciating pain from an ovarian cyst. When I woke up I was given the news that one of my ovaries had wrapped itself round the cyst, causing loss of blood flow and couldn't be saved. I'd therefore has one ovary and one fallopian tube removed. My mum was with me, there's no doubt it's what happened. I was given a kind of counselling session with the surgeon before I was discharged and reassured that I'd still be able to have children. Which I did, all good. Anyway I'm now 52, post menopausal and have had a recent scan and mri because I had some bleeding. Results were ok, I've got a polyp, nothing sinister. However both the scan and mri reported 2 ovaries! Dimensions of both were on the report and said appear normal. I've 100% got 2 ovaries. But I had one removed 25 years ago! Any guesses?

I know I've had two wisdom teeth out. So how come I have three left?

The human body does weird things.

They aren’t tiny! An ovary is about the size of a walnut.

Most likely wasn't an ovary that was removed, inflamed or abnormal tissues can look very different to normal and even experienced surgeons can make mistakes. The only way to know for sure would be if they sent the tissue to histopathology afterwards. I've seen at least a couple of 'appendixes' that turned out not to be when examined.

An ovarian cyst removal is not nessassarily the same as an oopherectomy

Read the OP again. The whole point of the post is that my surgeon told me very apologetically that the ovary couldn't be saved and was removed as well as the cyst.

Ovaries can appear as thin streaks of tissue after the menopause as a normal finding. It's possible that the majority of the ovary was removed with the surgery and some remained. Or there was other tissue with the appearance of a thin ovary on the scans and this was assumed to be ovarian.