A Rare Case of Low-Grade Serous Cystadenocarcinoma of the Ovary in a Seventeen-Year-Old Woman

Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most prevalent gynecological malignancy leading to mortality in adults but is an infrequent finding in children and adolescents. Most gynecological tumors found in females younger than age 20 are of germ cell nature. There are very few cases of epithelial ovarian neo...

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Autores principales: Rickards, John, Brooks, Byron A, Rivera-Betancourt, Ana, Velasquez, Douglas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9478196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36128000
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28086
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author Rickards, John
Brooks, Byron A
Rivera-Betancourt, Ana
Velasquez, Douglas
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Rivera-Betancourt, Ana
Velasquez, Douglas
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description Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most prevalent gynecological malignancy leading to mortality in adults but is an infrequent finding in children and adolescents. Most gynecological tumors found in females younger than age 20 are of germ cell nature. There are very few cases of epithelial ovarian neoplasms reported in the young female population. We report a case of low-grade serous ovarian neoplasm in a 17-year-old Caucasian female.
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spelling pubmed-94781962022-09-19 A Rare Case of Low-Grade Serous Cystadenocarcinoma of the Ovary in a Seventeen-Year-Old Woman Rickards, John Brooks, Byron A Rivera-Betancourt, Ana Velasquez, Douglas Cureus Internal Medicine Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most prevalent gynecological malignancy leading to mortality in adults but is an infrequent finding in children and adolescents. Most gynecological tumors found in females younger than age 20 are of germ cell nature. There are very few cases of epithelial ovarian neoplasms reported in the young female population. We report a case of low-grade serous ovarian neoplasm in a 17-year-old Caucasian female. Cureus 2022-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9478196/ /pubmed/36128000 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28086 Text en Copyright © 2022, Rickards et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Rickards, John
Brooks, Byron A
Rivera-Betancourt, Ana
Velasquez, Douglas
A Rare Case of Low-Grade Serous Cystadenocarcinoma of the Ovary in a Seventeen-Year-Old Woman
title A Rare Case of Low-Grade Serous Cystadenocarcinoma of the Ovary in a Seventeen-Year-Old Woman
title_full A Rare Case of Low-Grade Serous Cystadenocarcinoma of the Ovary in a Seventeen-Year-Old Woman
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Low-Grade Serous Cystadenocarcinoma of the Ovary in a Seventeen-Year-Old Woman
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Low-Grade Serous Cystadenocarcinoma of the Ovary in a Seventeen-Year-Old Woman
title_short A Rare Case of Low-Grade Serous Cystadenocarcinoma of the Ovary in a Seventeen-Year-Old Woman
title_sort rare case of low-grade serous cystadenocarcinoma of the ovary in a seventeen-year-old woman
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9478196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36128000
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28086
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