Ovarian tumors in children and adolescents--a clinical study of 52 patients in a university hospital.

Study Objective: To review the clinical presentation of ovarian tumors in children and adolescents treated at the University of Dammam and King Fahad University Hospital.

Design: Data of the patients was noted retrospectively from the hospital medical records regarding age, presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and outcome.

Setting: The study was carried out in the Ob/Gyn department at King Fahad Hospital of Dammam University, Saudi Arabia between January 1985 and December 2009.

Ovarian tumors associated with pregnancy: a 20-year experience in a teaching hospital.

Objective: Pregnancy associated with ovarian tumors was reviewed over a 20-year period to determine the maternal and fetal outcome in patients undergoing surgery during pregnancy.

Method: A retrospective study of 94 cases of ovarian tumors treated surgically during pregnancy was investigated for incidence, clinico-pathological features and outcome in a teaching hospital between June 1987 and May 2007.

Results: The overall incidence of ovarian tumor in pregnant women was 1 in 505 (0.