Juvenile granulosa tumor of the ovary: Report of two cases

Abstract

An 8-year-old girl with no particular pathological history, had been suffering for about 15 days from pelvic pain, paroxysmal, of moderate intensity, associated with an increase in abdominal volume and unquantifi ed weight loss. The abdominal examination found a painless abdominalpelvic mass measuring approximately 25 ×20 cm in diameter, of hard consistency, poorly limited, mobile with respect to the superfi cial plane, and fi xed with respect to the deep plane, with collateral venous circulation, without signs of hypersecretion and an undeplested umbilicus. The abdominal-pelvic ultrasound was performed, it revealed a large abdominalpelvic mass, occupying almost the totality of the abdomen, compatible with a supravesical cystic mass (Figure 1), associated with an intraperitoneal effusion of low abundance, without deep adenopathy, and without hepatic involvement. An abdominal-pelvic Computed Tomography (CT) scan objectifi ed a multicompartmentalized cystic mass, supraabdominal and left latero-vesical, which may correspond to a