Juniper Publishers Gynecology and Women’s Health

        JUNIPER PUBLISHERS- JOURNAL OF GYNECOLOGY AND WOMEN’S HEALTH                            Journal of Gynecology and Women’s Health-Juniper Publishers Authored by  Ekta Singh* Introduction The incidence of ovarian tumors in pregnancy is approximately 1 in 1000, of which 2-5% tumors are malignant (1 in 12,500-25,000 pregnancies) [ 1 ]. Among all the tumours diagnosed during pregnancy, the germ cell tumours reportedly the most prevalent, and epithelial ovarian tumour accounts for 20% of all ovarian malignancy epithelial ovarian cancers affects predominantly perimenopausal and post menopausal women [ 2 ]. Ovarian mucinous cystadenocarcinoma, a subtype of epithelial ovarian cancer, is rarely diagnosed during pregnancy in young women. Ultrasound scanning in pregnancy has lately become a routine. It has led to more frequent findings of the relatively asymptomatic adnexal masses [ 3 ]. In the absence of large prospective randomized trials and coh