title: [Benign ovarian tumors during pregnancy. A review of 26 cases].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify the particularities of ovarian tumors during pregnancy.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective study of 26 patients who underwent surgical treatment for ovarian tumors during pregnancy between January 1993 and December 2005. Clinical, ultrasonographic, therapeutic and histological data were analysed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean age of patients was 26.5 years. The circumstances under which the ovarian tumors were discovered consisted of adnexal torsion in 57% of cases, chronic pelvic pain in 15% of cases and at routine ultrasonographic scan in 26% of cases. 20 patients underwent cystectomy by laparotomy and 4 patients underwent laparoscopic cystectomy. 3 patients underwent adnexectomy. One abortion occurs 2 days after an adnexectomy. 17 deliveries occur at term. Histological findings were functional cyst in 4 cases, serous cyst in 11 cases, mucinous cyst in 2 cases and dermoid cyst in 7 cases.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ovarian tumors during pregnancy are rare. They are usually serous, functional and dermoid cysts. Laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy offers significant advantages with respect to laparotomy for the pregnant patient.
authors.affiliation: Service de Gynécologie Obstétrique A EPS Charles Nicolle, Tunis, Tunisie.
authors.forename: Leila
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Attia
authors.forename: Abdelatif
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chachia
authors.forename: Riadh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ben Temime
authors.forename: Ghaya
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bennour
authors.forename: Tahar
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Makhlouf
authors.forename: Abdelhamid
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Koubâa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010048:Ovarian Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D012189:Retrospective Studies