Rare Case: Ovarian Cysts in Child

Tubagus Odih R Wahid

Abstract

An ovarian cyst is a sac filled with liquid or semiliquid material that arises in an ovary. Those cysts were mostly found in women aged 20-50 years. The incidence is 10: 100.000 women. This report reports a case of a child patient aged two years who came to Arifin Achmad Hospital with a chief complaint there is a mass in the lower abdomen area. From the physical examination, the lump in the lower abdomen area was obtained. We performed, laparotomy exploration with cystectomy and found a left ovarian cyst size 12 x 12 x 15 cm.

Keywords

ovarian cyst, child

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26891/JIK.v16i1.2022.49-51

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