Adnexal torsion in children and adolescents: new trends to conservative surgical approach - Our experience and review of the literature
| Autor: | Josephine Liserre, Antonio Messineo, Valentina Pucci, Martin Alessandra, Claudio Spinelli, I Buti, Elisabetta Alberti, Luca Nencini, Roberto Lo Piccolo |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Laparoscopic surgery
Adolescents children conservative approach ovarian disease ovarian torsion ovarian surgery Torsion Abnormality medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism medicine.medical_treatment Adolescents Ovarian disease Endocrinology Adnexa Uteri children medicine Humans Ovarian Diseases Child Laparoscopy Retrospective Studies Ovarian Neoplasms ovarian surgery medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Ovarian torsion Infant Obstetrics and Gynecology Retrospective cohort study medicine.disease ovarian disease Surgery Adnexal Diseases Child Preschool Acute Disease ovarian torsion Female business conservative approach |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study is to discuss the surgical treatment for ovarian torsion in children and adolescents with a focus on the procedures of adnexal conservation surgery and its frequency in the literature of the last 10 years. We retrospectively reviewed the medical charts of 127 operative ovarian lesions including 30 ovarian torsions (23.6%) treated in two pediatric centers over a 10-year period. Age at presentation, presenting symptoms, diagnostic studies, surgical procedure and pathological findings were analyzed. Mean age was 13.7 years. Conservative surgery has been performed in 46.7% of the cases and laparoscopic approach in 40%. Ovarian torsion occurred in 56.7% on ovaries with functional lesion, in 23.3% on normal adnexa and in 20% on ovaries with benign neoplasm. The article includes a literature review (2000-2010) and a statistical analysis which shows a slow increase in conservative surgery from 28 to 45%. Laparoscopic surgery accounts for 23.5%. Literature review shows 40.5% normal adnexa, 33.2% non-neoplastic lesions, 25.3% benign neoplasms and 1% malignant neoplasms. The surgical treatment of children and adolescents presenting adnexal torsion should be practiced as an emergency and it should be more conservative as possible in order to maximize the future reproductive potential. |
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