title: [Granulosa cell tumor. The results of postoperative irradiation].
abstract: Postoperative irradiation was done in 12 female patients with granulosa cell tumours between 1962 and 1981. The average follow-up period was 10 years and 10 females were alive without evidence of renewed tumour growth. A further patient died of cardiac infarction after 7 years. At the time of death she was free of recurrence or metastases. Only in one case multiple filiae developed in the lung, liver and skeleton 8 months after cessation of irradiation. The progression of these could not be arrested. Following the first therapeutic step, i.e. abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral adnectomy , radiotherapy represents an important additional therapeutic measure. Thus the unfavourable long-term prognosis of granulosa cell tumours can be beneficially influenced particularly in far-advanced cases or in recurrences.
mesh_terms: D000290:Adnexa Uteri / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006106:Granulosa Cell Tumor / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D011182:Postoperative Care
vernacular_title: Granulosazell-Tumoren. Ergebnisse der postoperativen Bestrahlung.