Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 41-44, February 2008
A Huge Ovarian Mucinous Cystadenoma in a 14-Year-Old Premenarchal Girl: Review on Ovarian Mucinous Tumor in Premenarchal Girls
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.
Key Words: Mucinous cystadenoma, Mucinous tumor, Epithelial ovarian tumor, Premenarchal, Child
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PII: S1083-3188(07)00298-7
doi:10.1016/j.jpag.2007.09.005
© 2008 North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 41-44, February 2008
