Differentiating Congenital Ovarian Cysts From Other Abdominal Cystic Lesions In Female Infants: A Study by the Canadian Consortium for Research in Pediatric Surgery (CanCORPS)

Multi-center Canadian study of 185 female infants with prenatally diagnosed abdominal cysts found that 12% were non-ovarian in origin. Earlier gestational age at diagnosis was associated with non-ovarian etiology, helping clinicians distinguish cysts requiring surgical intervention from ovarian cysts managed conservatively.