Four hundred twenty of 481 patients with adnexal cystic masses (508 cysts) confirmed by laparoscopy were treated by translaparoscopic surgery only. The remaining 61 patients were treated by laparotomy for one of the following reasons: malignancy or suspicion of malignancy (19 cases) and dense adhesions or large cysts (42 cases).
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