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This study analyzed 28 pediatric adnexal pathology cases treated with laparoscopy, finding it effective for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions like detorsion, cystectomy, and gonad ablation with low morbidity.
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This paper reports the authors’ experience using laparoscopy for adnexal pathology in 28 children (mean age 13 years; 8–16), with 30 procedures performed. Therapeutic laparoscopy was done in 3 cases (ovarian transposition before radiotherapy, bilateral gonadal excision for Turner’s syndrome, and ovarian fixation after torsion of contralateral normal adnexa), while diagnostic and potentially therapeutic laparoscopy was performed in 25 cases for suspected torsion, suspected ovarian/appendiceal pathology, histologic confirmation of ovarian tumors, suspected salpingitis, and chronic pelvic pain; in 13 cases laparoscopy enabled interventions such as detorsion (with or without fixation), excision of necrosed adnexa, and puncture/biopsy for functional cysts. The authors note low morbidity but include limitations that laparoscopy found no pathology in 2 cases and adhesions prevented confirmation of the diagnosis in 1 case, and one detorsion was complicated by fibrinolysis requiring secondary laparotomy. Relevance to endometriosis: endometriosis is mentioned as the confirmed etiology in 1 of the 2 chronic pelvic pain cases evaluated by laparoscopy, though the paper’s main focus is pediatric adnexal pathology and laparoscopic management.
Abstract
We report our experience with laparoscopy in adnexal pathology in the child. Twenty-eight children (mean age 13 years; range 8 to 16) underwent 30 laparoscopy procedures. Therapeutic laparoscopy was performed in 3 cases: transposition of an ovary before radiotherapy, bilateral gonadal excision for Turner's syndrome and ovarian fixation after contralateral torsion of normal adnexa (TNA). Diagnostic and potentially therapeutic laparoscopy was performed in 25 cases: 12 suspected torsion of adnexa (6 confirmed), 4 possible ovarian or appendicular pathology (1 appendicitis), 4 to confirm the histological nature of an ovarian tumor (2 functional cysts, 1 old TNA, 1 dermoid cyst), 3 suspected salpingitis (2 confirmed), and 2 chronic pelvic pain (1 endometriosis). No pathology was found in 2 cases, and in 1 case pelvic adhesions prevented confirmation of the diagnosis. Thirteen laparoscopically-guided surgical acts were performed: 2 detorsions of adnexa, 2 excisions of necrosed adnexa and 9 punctures with or without biopsy for functional cysts. Intralaparoscopic detorsion of TNA was complicated in one case by fibrinolysis requiring secondary laparotomy. Mean hospitalisation was 3 days (range 1 to 16). the preferential therapeutic indications for laparoscopy in the child are transposition of an ovary and ablation of the gonads in case of sexual ambiguity. It is used diagnostically in cases of sudden pelvic pain. In addition to this diagnostic role, it now allows most treatments to be carried out (detorsion with or without fixation, transparietal cystectomy), including those for associated lesions (appendicectomy). Its morbidity is quite low, which warrants increasing the number of indications in pediatric pathology.
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DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1063515
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York
Laparoscopy in Adnexal Pathology in the Child: A Study of 28 Cases
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Publication Date:
25 March 2008 (online)
Abstract
We report our experience with laparoscope in adnexal pathology in the child. Twenty-eight children (mean age 13 years; range 8 to 16) underwent 30 laparoscope procedures, Therapeutic laparoscope was performed in 3 cases: transposition of an ovary before radiotherapy, bilateral gonadal excision For Turner's syndrome and ovarian fixation after contralateral torsion of normal adnexa (TNA). Diagnostic and potentially therapeutic laparoscopy was performed in 25 cases: 12 suspected torsion of adnexa (6 confirmed), 4 possible ovarian or appendicular pathology (1 appendicitis), 4 to confirm the histological nature of an ovarian tumor (2 functional cysts, 1 old TNA, 1 dermoid cyst), 3 suspected salpingitis (2 confirmed), and 2 chronic pelvic pain (1 endometriosis). No pathology was found in 2 cases, and in 1 case pelvic adhesions prevented confirmation of the diagnosis. Thirteen laparoscopically-guided surgical acts were performed: 2 detorsions of adnexa, 2 excisions of necrosed adnexa and 9 punctures with or without biopsy for functional cysts. Intralaparoscopic detorsion of TNA was complicated in one case by fibrinolysis requiring secondary-laparotomy. Mean hospitalisation was 3 days (range 1 to 16).
The preferential therapeutic indications for laparoscopy in the child are transposition of an ovary and ablation of the gonads in case of sexual ambiguity. It is used diagnostically in cases of sudden pelvic pain. In addition to this diagnostic role, it now allows most treatments to be carried out (detorsion with or without fixation, transparietal cystectomy), including those for associated lesions (appendicectomy). Its morbidity is quite low, which warrants increasing the number of indications in pediatric pathology.
Zusammenfassung
Wir berichten über unsere Erfahrung mit der Laparoskopie in der Pathologie der Adnexe beim Kind. Bei 28 Kindern mit einem durchschnittlichen Alter von 13 Jahren (8 bis 16) sind 30 Laparoskopien vorgenommen worden. Diese Laparoskopien unterteilen sich in zwei Gruppen:
1) Therapeutische Laparoskopien (3 Fälle): eine Eierstockverlagerung vor der Radiotherapie, eine bilaterale Gonadenexhärese wegen eines Turner-Syndroms, eine Eierstockpexie nach Torsion der kontrolateralen gesunden Adnexe.
2) Diagnostische und/oder therapeutische Laparoskopien (25 Fälle): die Indikationen waren: in 12 Fällen Verdacht auf Adnexentorsion (6mal bestätigt), 4mal Verdacht auf Eierstock- und Blinddarm-Erkrankung (einmal Appendizitis), 4mal zur histologischen Diagnose eines Eierstocktumors (2 funktionelle Zysten- [FK], eine alte Torsion bei gesunden Adnexen [TGA], eine Dermoidzyste), 3mal wegen chronischer Beckenschmerzen (eine Endometriose). In zwei Fällen wies die Laparoskopie keinen pathologischen Befund nach, in einem Fall war die Diagnose wegen Adhäsionen nicht möglich.
Dreizehn Eingriffe wurden laparoskopisch durchgeführt: 2 Detorsionen torquierter Adnexe, 2 Extirpationen nekrotisierter Adnexe, 9 Punktionen ± Biopsien wegen funktioneller Zysten. Die laparoskopische Detorsion einer TGA war in einem Fall durch eine Fibrinolyse kompliziert, die eine sekundäre Laparotomie erforderte.
Die Laparoskopie hat beim Kind ausgewählte therapeutische Indikationen. Eierstockverlagerungen bei Bestrahlung, Gonadenablation bei Intersex. Sie kann diagnostisch bei starken Pelvisschmerzen eingesetzt werden. Zusätzlich zu dieser diagnostischen Funktion gestattet die Laparoskopie auch Behandlungen durchzuführen (Detorsion ± Pexie, transparietale Zystektomie, Appendektomie). Die Morbidität der Methode ist gering, was eine Erweiterung ihrer Indikationen rechtfertigt.
Key words
Laparoscopy - Adnexal surgery
Schlüsselwörter
Laparoskopie - Adnexenchirurgie
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MeSH descriptors
Genital Diseases, Female
Laparoscopy
Adolescent
Biopsy
Child
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Genital Diseases, Female
Genital Diseases, Female
Genital Diseases, Female
Genitalia, Female
Genitalia, Female
Humans
Ovarian Cysts
Ovarian Cysts
Ovarian Cysts
Ovarian Cysts
Ovarian Neoplasms
Ovarian Neoplasms