[Surgery of the female gonads].

37 girls, 2 to 16 years of age, with 38 ovarian tumours or ovarian cysts were treated between 1971 and 1986. 14 patients had teratomas, 8 cystadenomas, 11 follicular cysts and 5 cysts of parovarian origin. 2 of the teratomas were malignant. Abdominal pain was the leading symptom in 32 patients, an abdominal mass was found by palpation in 18 patients. Most of the teratomas were found in prepubertal girls. With one exception all children with follicular cysts and cystadenomas were between 11 and 16 years of age. The patients with teratomas and cystadenomas were treated by ovariectomy, in the 2 patients with malignant teratomas followed by chemotherapy. The girls with ovarian or parovarian cysts were treated by cystectomy. All patients are doing well 1 to 15 years after operation.