Ovarian tumors

Ovarian tumors can arise from superficial (whole, mesoderm, "germ") epithelium, germ cells or sex cord -stromal tumors.

Ovarian cancers have an annual incidence of about 21 of 100,000 women. They are mostly asymptomatic, diagnosed either as an accidental finding, or only at an advanced stage, when they manifest as palpable resistance in the abdomen, ascites, torsion or subtorium of the ovary.

Non-tumor changes
The most common ovarian pseudo-tumors are ovarian cysts. They occur either solitarily or as multiple cysts. They can affect one or both ovaries.

According to the etiology, we distinguish cysts caused by:
 * Pathology of the follicular apparatus (follicular, corpus luteum, lutein, polycystic ovaries)
 * Superficial epithelium inclusion (serous inclusion cysts)
 * Endometriosis (endometriosis Samps cysts)

Epithelial tumors
This is the most common type of tumor - up to 90% of cases are of this type. They can be serous, mucinous, endometroidic, clear cells or transitional cells (Brenner tumor). Each histological type can be benign, atypically proliferating, or malignant.



Metastatic tumors
Uterine tumors and GIT tumors (Krukenberg tumor) metastasize to the ovaries.

Related articles

 * Non-epithelial ovarian tumors
 * Ovarian cancer
 * Malignant tumors in gynecology

Used literature

 * ROB, Lukáš, Alois MARTAN a Karel CITTERBART. Gynekologie. 2. vydání. Praha : Galén, 2008. 390 s.  ISBN 978-80-7262-501-7.

Category : Gynecology