title: Ovarian tumours: a study of 282 cases.
abstract: Histologically 282 ovarian tumours were studied, of these 212 (75.2%) were benign, 8 (2.8%) of borderline malignancy and 62 (21.9%) were malignant. The tumours were classified according to WHO classification. Epithelial tumours were the commonest variety constituting 70.9% of all the ovarian tumours followed by germ cell tumours (21.2%), sex cord stromal tumours (6.7%) and metastatic tumours (0.7%). Among the individual tumours, serous tumours (42.9%) were the commonest, followed by mucinous tumours (25.5%), teratomas (17%), granulosa cell tumours (6.7%), dysgerminomas (2.48%) and endodermal sinus tumours (1.77%). Two cases (0.7%) of endometrioid carcinomas and one case (0.35%) of clear cell carcinoma were encountered. Ovarian tumours were found to occur in the age range of 8 months to 74 years. Peak incidence was between 21 and 40 years age group.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, JN Medical College, Belgaum 590010.
authors.forename: Ganga S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Pilli
authors.forename: K P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Suneeta
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Dhaded
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Yenni
mesh_terms: D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000473:pathology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D018293:Cystadenoma, Serous / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D018237:Germinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies