Adnexal mass occurring with intrauterine pregnancy: report of fifty-four patients requiring laparotomy for definitive management.
Publication/Presentation Date
5-1-1988
Abstract
Fifty-four cases in which surgical intervention during pregnancy was required for definitive therapy of adnexal masses were reviewed. The calculated incidence of adnexal masses that required surgical intervention during pregnancy in our primary population (patients who were not referred for evaluation of an already identified mass) was one case per 1300 live births. A malignant tumor was found in 5.9% of the pregnant patients who underwent exploratory celiotomy for therapy of an adnexal mass. Those pregnant women who underwent emergency celiotomy because of hemorrhage or torsion as a complication of an adnexal mass spontaneously aborted or underwent premature delivery more frequently than those patients who underwent elective celiotomy for removal of the mass (p less than 0.001). On the basis of this review, we recommend that pregnant women with persistent adnexal masses undergo elective extirpation of the mass in the second trimester of pregnancy.
Volume
158
Issue
5
First Page
1029
Last Page
1034
ISSN
0002-9378
Published In/Presented At
Hess, L. W., Peaceman, A., O'Brien, W. F., Winkel, C. A., Cruikshank, D. P., & Morrison, J. C. (1988). Adnexal mass occurring with intrauterine pregnancy: report of fifty-four patients requiring laparotomy for definitive management. American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, 158(5), 1029–1034. https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9378(88)90212-8
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
3369479
Department(s)
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Document Type
Article