Large Ovarian Cyst in a Newborn Infant
- 1 September 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children
- Vol. 94 (3) , 320-321
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1957.04030040106017
Abstract
Cysts of the ovaries are not common prior to puberty.1Schaefer et al. found only 6 cases of ovarian tumors in children in a series of more than 10,000 gynecological admissions to Queens General Hospital in New York.2These tumors are very rare before the age of one year.3Graves was able to uncover only 16 cystic and 2 solid ovarian tumors in infants less than 12 months of age.3Eight of these growths were probably present before birth, and two were of sufficient size to make delivery of the fetus difficult. Ovarian tumors constitute approximately 1% of all tumors in children, according to Costin and Kennedy, who reviewed over 200 such cases.4One-third of these are simple or multilocular cysts; one-fourth, dermoid cysts, and one-third, carcinomas or sarcomas. Bilateral carcinoma of the ovaries in a 7-month stillborn fetus was reported by Ziegler.5InKeywords
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