This study was planned to evaluate the vascular pedicle torsion of various ovarian tumors, which were made on a series of 96 cases with torsion of ovarian tumor, who were admitted, operated and confirmed with postoperative histopathological study
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Soon Chun Hyang University, Chunan Hospital, during the period of 10 years from 1985 March, to 1995 December.
@ES The results were as follows :
@EN 1. The mean age of patients was 24.8 year old with range from 14 to 42.
2. The most frequent symptom was lower abdominal pain(100%), followed by intermittent pain attack(48%), nausea(21%), vomiting(17%), vaginal bleeding(8%), and dysuria(4%).
3. The mean size of tumors was 6.3 cm with range from 3 to 16.
4. The torsion occured at right side in 76 cases(76%) and at left side in 20 cases(21%).
5. The most frequent degree of torsion was one time rotation.(360°, 44%).
6. By histopathological classification of tumors with torsion, there were 46 cases of dermoid cyst(48%), 23 cases of simple cyst(24%), 14 cases of mucinous cystadenoma(15%), 10 cases of serous cystadenoma(10%), 2 cases of serous
cystadenocarcinoma(2%),
1 case of mucinous cystadenocarcinoma(1%).
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