Sex cord nests with annular tubules. The incidence of identifying them in normal ovaries.
Sections from 588 ovaries removed during various operations and reported as being within normal size limits were reviewed. In seven cases structures with the characteristic appearances of sex cord "tumours" with annular tubules (SCTAT) were found. We called the lesions sex cord nests with annular tubules (SCNAT). Their mean diameter was 0.17 mm. If ovaries were cut in serial sections the probabilities of identifying such lesions should increase very much.
Delides
G S
GS
Department of Pathology, Metaxa's Memorial Cancer Institute Piraeus, Greece.
Elemenoglou
J
J
Garas
G
G
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D010052:Ovariectomy; D010053:Ovary / Q000473:pathology*