[Gynecologic tumors in childhood and adolescence]

These tumors, although rarely found, are of high clinical interest because of the difficulty of diagnosis and the problems of therapy. Symptoms which lead to the (provisional) diagnosis of tumors in female adults such as atypical bleeding, virilisation, growth of the abdominal circumference and the like are often ignored or not recognized in childhood. As a result, therapy often is started too late. More complications and greater difficulty of therapeutical measures such as operations, radiation and chemotherapy are encountered in childhood than in adult life. Frequency and morphology of gynecoligic tumors are described and diagnosis and therapy are discussed.