Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3963305 | Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology | 2008 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Superficial epithelial ovarian tumors are unusual in adolescent girls (when compared with adult women) and extremely rare before menarche. Mucinous cystadenoma (MCA) in children that is a rare form of epithelial tumor is a benign cystic ovarian neoplasm. To our knowledge, there are only eight cases of mucinous cystadenoma, three of borderline mucinous cystadenoma, and three of mucinous cystadenocarcinoma reported in the English-language literature. We present a 14-year-old premenarchal girl with a giant ovarian mucinous cystadenoma. This review is supported by the finding that epithelial ovarian neoplasms are extremely rare prior to puberty and that only 14 mucinous tumors have been reported prior to menarche.
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Authors
Ayşe Karaman, Müjdem Nur Azılı, Esin Cengiz Boduroğlu, İbrahim Karaman, Derya Erdoğan, Yusuf Hakan Çavuşoğlu, Mustafa Kemal Aslan, Özden Çakmak,