title: 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.
authors.affiliation: Dr. Sami Ulus Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Surgery and Pathology, Ankara, Turkey. ayseuk@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ayşe
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karaman
authors.forename: Müjdem Nur
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Azili
authors.forename: Esin Cengiz
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Boduroğlu
authors.forename: Ibrahim
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Karaman
authors.forename: Derya
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Erdoğan
authors.forename: Yusuf Hakan
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Cavuşoğlu
authors.forename: Mustafa Kemal
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Aslan
authors.forename: Ozden
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Cakmak
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D018291:Cystadenoma, Mucinous / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008572:Menarche; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D010052:Ovariectomy