title: Borderline ovarian tumours: retrospective analysis of twenty-one cases.
abstract: Twenty-one borderline ovarian tumour cases, diagnosed and treated in our oncology section between 1986 and 1996, were retrospectively analysed. Thirty-three percent of the cases had serous tumours and the rest (66.6%) were mucinous, 57.1% of the mucinous tumours were the intestinal type and the remaining 42.9% were the endocervical type. When all the cases were analysed, the average age was 45.4+/-18.6 years, the average follow-up period was 5.5+/-2.6 years. The preoperative average CA125 level was 55.1+/-51.9 U/mL, and for CA19.9 it was 48.2+/-47.8 U/mL. Of the patients 85.7% were stage I and 14.3% state III. There were not any significant differences between the serous, intestinal-type mucinous and endometroid-type mucinous tumours regarding tumour volumes (p>0.05). When serous and mucinous tumours were compared according to the tumour markers, CA125 levels were significantly higher in the serous tumours (p=0.04) and CA19.9 levels were significantly higher in the mucinous tumours (p=0.02). All of the patients are under our follow-up and are in remission, except one, who died in the third year of the treatment because of chronic renal failure unrelated to the ovarian pathology.
authors.affiliation: Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Saygili
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Uslu
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Erten
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Doğan
mesh_terms: D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000097:blood; D018394:CA-125 Antigen / Q000097:blood; D018395:CA-19-9 Antigen / Q000097:blood; D018283:Cystadenocarcinoma, Papillary / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D015996:Survival Rate; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D018394:CA-125 Antigen; D018395:CA-19-9 Antigen