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Genital tumors during childhood and adolescence. A clinical and pathological study of 71 cases
Genital tumors during the first two decades of life are not common and they constitute 5-10% of all tumors. During the period 1993-1997, 71 cases of genital tumors were diagnosed and managed in the Divisions of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology of the 1st and 2nd Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Athens. Ovarian tumors were found to be the most common uterine tumors -16.9% and cervical -28%. From the ovarian tumors -80.3% of all tumors; -77.2% of cases were found to be benign; 15.8% malignant and 7% borderline. Malignant tumors were found to be germ cell -44.5%, epithelial -22.2%, stromal -11.1%, lymphoma 11.1%, and mixed -II.I%.