Benign cystic teratoma of the ovary: A 5-year review.

ABSTRACT

This retrospective study reports on 321 cases of benign cystic teratoma of the ovary treated at Siriraj Hospital over a five-year period fro 1988-1992. The mean age of the patients was 33.6 + 11.8 years. Nearly 40% of the patients were asymptomatic when the teratoma was discovered, of the rest, the common presenting symptoms were abdominal pain (54.5%) or abdominal mass (34.5%). The tumors, which developed among more than half of the patients (54.8%), were between 6-10 cm in greatest diameter. In 33 patients (10.3%), the tumor was bilateral. Complications from the tumors were found in 46 patients (14.3%) 43 cases of torsion (93.5%); two of spontaneous rupture (4.3%); and one infected tumor (2.2%). Surgical treatment was conservative in 63.6% of patients and radical n 36.4% of the patients.