title: Rare ovarian tumors in childhood.
abstract: Between 1972 and 1990 44 patients with ovarian tumors were treated at the Department of Pediatric Surgery of the University of Heidelberg. 27 patients (61%) suffered from tumor-like lesions: neonatal, pubertal (functional) cysts, and cysts in case of syndromes. 17 genuine tumors were found (39%): 8 germ-cell tumors, 7 cystomas respectively cystadenomas and 2 tumors of the gonadal stroma. Malignancy has been observed only in two cases: 1 malignant teratoma and 1 malignant granulosa-theca-cell tumor. 2 tumor-like lesions were caused by syndromes: Albright-McCune-Sternberg- and Stein-Leventhal syndrome: Treatment of uncommon tumors depends on their size, hormonal activity, on the syndromes with which they are associated, and on the tumor status.
authors.affiliation: Kinderchirurgische Abteilung der Chirurgischen Universitätsklinik Heidelberg.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Roth
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Daum
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Benz
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schäfer
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006106:Granulosa Cell Tumor / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D010048:Ovarian Cysts / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*