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Ovarian Cancer in the Pediatric Population

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Ovarian neoplasms are uncommon in children: the most common histopathology is a germ cell tumor. The pathology for the majority of pediatric ovarian tumors, typically germ cell tumors, differs from that of adult ovarian neoplasms, which are often epithelial tumors. Surgical staging and extent of surgical extirpation differ between children and adults, given such dissimilar pathologies. For pediatric ovarian malignancies, staging and surgical resection is focused on and localized to the actual visible extent of the tumor and its direct contiguous involvement in other structures. In contrast, adults require an extirpative approach taken to ensure staging of all potential peritoneal structures and to remove all potential sites harboring tumor, given the spread of epithelial tumors.

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Fischer, A.C. (2022). Ovarian Cancer in the Pediatric Population. In: Farghaly, S.A. (eds) Advances in Diagnosis and Management of Ovarian Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09169-8_12

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