title: [A 10-kg ovarian mucinous cystadenoma in a 13 year-old girl].
abstract: A 13 year-old girl was admitted to hospital with abdominal pain and weight gain. The physical examination showed pronounced abdominal distension, but slim extremities. A magnetic resonance imaging scan revealed a left cystic ovarian tumour. The ovarian tumour was removed and the weight turned out to be 10.3 kg. Pathology showed a borderline mucinous cystadenoma. Ovarian tumours represent less than 2% of all tumours in girls under the age of 16. In this age group 50% of the ovarian tumours are neoplastic and 60% derive from the surface epithelia of the ovary.
authors.affiliation: Kirurgisk Afdeling, Regionshospitalet Viborg, Heibergs Allé 4, 8800 Viborg, Denmark. mariekirk@dadlnet.dk
authors.forename: Marie Kirk
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Christensen
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gade
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000175:diagnosis; D000293:Adolescent; D018291:Cystadenoma, Mucinous / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery