TY  - JOUR
TI  - Ovarian masses in children: A single center’s experience
AB  - Aim: Although ovarian masses are rare in children, they differ forevery age group. We aimed to evaluate the management of patientsdiagnosed with ovarian masses in our clinic.Material and Methods: The medical records of patients (age ≤ 18) who underwent operations for ovarian masses during the period2009-2019were evaluated retrospectively. Demographic findings, presenting symptoms and signs, the results of radiologicalexaminations, mass locations and sizes, tumor markers, histopathological diagnoses and cases’surgical intervention were recorded.Results: The study included 51 patients with a total of 54 surgical interventions. There was a significant difference between tumorsize and pathological diagnosis (p<0.048) between the pathological diagnosis and the surgical intervention for patients who requiredoophorectomy and did not require oophorectomy (p=0.02) and presenting symptoms and signs with pathological diagnoses(p=0.027). We found no difference in the patients’ age of presentation and the pathological diagnoses (ovarian torsion, neoplasticor non neoplastic lesions) (p=0.542). We also found no difference between tumor markers and pathological diagnoses (p=0.253 forCEA, p=0.345 for αFP and p=0.129 for βHCG) or mass location (right or left side) with the pathological diagnoses (p=0.246).Conclusion: : Ovary preservation surgery is important for ovarian masses in children, and we must be careful when performingsurgery on these patients.
AU  - Yalçın Cömert, Hatice Sonay
AU  - Sarıhan, Haluk
AU  - Eyuboglu, Ilker
AU  - AKDOĞAN, Ali
AU  - Ersoz, Safak
AU  - İMAMOĞLU, MUSTAFA
DO  - 10.5455/annalsmedres.2019.12.796
PY  - 2020
JO  - Annals of Medical Research
VL  - 27
IS  - 5
SN  - 2636-7688
SP  - 1465
EP  - 1468
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/361469
ER  -