Mohammed Abdullahi, Malami S A, Calvin B, Abdullahi K
Department of Pathology, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria.
Afr J Paediatr Surg. 2010 May-Aug;7(2):75-7. doi: 10.4103/0189-6725.62848.
Information concerning the frequency and pattern of ovarian tumours in children is scant, more so in northern Nigeria. In view of this, we reviewed ovarian biopsies obtained from children in Zaria over a 25-year period.
Ovarian tumours occurring in 48 patients of age 15 years and below were reviewed and classified using the current World Health Organization (WHO) histological classification of ovarian tumours.
Ovarian tumours in children accounted for 8.6% of all cases of tumours seen in all age groups over the period. Among all the malignant tumours seen in this period, 32% occurred in children, and Burkitt's lymphoma accounted for 31.2% of these. Germ cell tumours accounted for 58.0% while epithelial tumours had a frequency of 2.1%.
Burkitt's lymphoma is the most common childhood ovarian tumour in Zaria, northern Nigeria.
关于儿童卵巢肿瘤的发病率和模式的信息很少,在尼日利亚北部更是如此。鉴于此,我们回顾了25年间在扎里亚从儿童身上获取的卵巢活检样本。
对48例15岁及以下患者的卵巢肿瘤进行回顾,并根据世界卫生组织(WHO)当前的卵巢肿瘤组织学分类进行分类。
在此期间,儿童卵巢肿瘤占所有年龄组所见肿瘤病例的8.6%。在这一时期所见的所有恶性肿瘤中,32%发生在儿童身上,其中伯基特淋巴瘤占31.2%。生殖细胞肿瘤占58.0%,上皮性肿瘤的发生率为2.1%。
在尼日利亚北部的扎里亚,伯基特淋巴瘤是最常见的儿童卵巢肿瘤。