Abstract

BASTIAN MANSO, Luis  and  CASTRO GUEVARA, José E. Ovarian neoplastic and nonneoplastic cysts in infancy and children. AMC [online]. 2006, vol.10, n.4, pp. 65-75. ISSN 1025-0255.

Ovarian tumors and cyst in infancy and children account for 1 % of all tumoral processes in Cuba. Of them, more than 50 % correspond to simple cysts, benign teratomas, and follicular cysts. A longitudinal descriptive study was conducted at the Children’s Hospital of Camagüey from July 1973 to July 2004 to access the incidence of tumors. 170 patients who had been admitted to the hospital were enrolled in the universe and sample. Clinical records were reviewed and a form was printed with these variables: age, onset features, most impaired side, histology, complementary test, and complications. Prevailing age was 11-15 (122 patients, 71,8 %). The incidence rate of right side cysts and rose up to 71,8 %. Prevailing lesions were benign cysts tumors that are cystic teratomas, which amounted to 107 patients, followed by follicule-based nonneoplastic cysts (12,4 %). Simple radiography of the abdomen and abdominal ultrasound scanning were the prevailing complementary tests.

Keywords : OVARIAN CYSTS; CHILD; TERATOMA; FOLLICULAR CYST.

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