Ovarian Immature Teratoma Detected During Pregnancy

A PubMed and Scopus search was conducted with the key words 'ovarian immature teratoma' and 'pregnancy' and all related published articles assessed.Totally 19 case reports and 12 review articles about the germ cell tumours of the ovary and ovarian tumours during pregnancy were determined.Cases in articles with a review of prior published cases were included if the clinicopathologic information about the cases was clearly stated.Crossing cases from the articles precluded.Cases who first diagnosed by ovarian pure immature teratoma during or related with their pregnancy were included in the study.Patients were examined by age of the patients, grade and stage of the tumour, gestational week and symptoms at diagnosis, operation type, chemotherapy, birth weekbirth way, second look laparotomy, disease free survival and prognosis.Manuscripts with incomplete data (<50% of analysed criteria) and case reports published in local journals with weak data were excluded.Age, clinical findings, histologic grade and stage, treatment options and the prognosis of both mothers and fetuses were analysed by descriptive analysis with SPSS 21.0 statistical programme (SPSS package, version 21.