title: Histologic patterns of primary malignant tumors of the fallopian tube.
abstract: From 1978 through 1993 four patients underwent surgical treatment of primary fallopian tube rumors. Mean age was 62.5 years. A different histologic pattern was found in each cases: transitional, endometrioid, serous papillary and malignant mixed mesodermal tumor. Prognostic significance of histologic patterns is underlined together with grade and stage; all our cases were included in stage IA. Surgical treatment was, in all cases, hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy; in two cases an adjunctive chemotherapy followed. A second look was performed in two cases. All patients are alive and free of disease with a follow-up varying from 15 to 84 months.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, S. Carlo Borromeo Hospital, Milan.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schmid
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Boeri
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Berti
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Contini
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pasquinucci
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005185:Fallopian Tube Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged