Abstract | OBJECTIVE: To study the clinical presentation of patients with benign adnexal tumors who had surgical management and the histopathological types of the tumors. METHODS: Retrospective data were collected on 110 patients who underwent surgery for benign adnexal tumor from January 1999 through to April 2002, in Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Sultanate of Oman. The histopathological types of the tumors were also studied. RESULTS: CONCLUSION: Benign mature teratoma was the commonest histopathological type. Most of the patients had laparotomy; ovarian cystectomy and recurrences were few.
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Authors | Asma M Al-Ojaili, Vaidaynathan Gowri |
Journal | Saudi medical journal
(Saudi Med J)
Vol. 24
Issue 12
Pg. 1334-6
(Dec 2003)
ISSN: 0379-5284 [Print] Saudi Arabia |
PMID | 14710279
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Abdominal Pain
(diagnosis, etiology)
- Adnexal Diseases
(diagnostic imaging, pathology, surgery)
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Biopsy, Needle
- Child
- Cohort Studies
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Laparoscopy
(methods)
- Middle Aged
- Ovarian Cysts
(pathology, surgery)
- Retrospective Studies
- Risk Assessment
- Saudi Arabia
- Treatment Outcome
- Ultrasonography, Doppler
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