title: Recurrent mucinous cystadenoma in a 20-year-old woman: was hysterectomy inevitable?
abstract: A recurrence of ovarian mucinous cysts is very rare. Over a period of 21 months, a 20-year-old patient had three laparotomies resulting initially in the removal of one ovary with a mucinous cystadenoma and two cystectomies for the same pathology, but ultimately leading to hysterectomy and salphingo-oopherectomy. Because mucinous tumors are usually benign and most of the time multilocular, management of young patients is challenging, especially in the case of recurrence. Follow-up of these patients is very important and transvaginal ultrasound seems to be currently the most effective diagnostic tool for the follow-up of young patients treated with cystectomy for benign mucinous cystadenomas.
authors.affiliation: Second Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinic, Sisli Etfal Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. basakbaksu@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Basak
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Baksu
authors.forename: Atif
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Akyol
authors.forename: Inci
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Davas
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yazgan
authors.forename: Jale
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ozgul
authors.forename: Canan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tanik
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018291:Cystadenoma, Mucinous / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000601:surgery*; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D010052:Ovariectomy