OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to determine the efficacy of morphology indexing and Doppler flow sonography as methods to predict risk of malignancy in sonographically confirmed ovarian tumors. METHODS Risk of malignancy was assessed preoperatively in 442 ovarian tumors using a new morphology index (MI) based on tumor volume and wall structure. Each tumor was assigned a score of 0 to 10...

OBJECTIVE The true incidence of ovarian tumors in children is unknown. Few studies beyond case reports and case series have been published concerning pediatric ovarian tumors. Herein we review a large number of ovarian tumor cases. METHODS The charts of 203 patients who presented with adnexal masses were reviewed. RESULTS The patient's ranged in age from 2 to 18 years (mean = 15.6 years), w...

Postmenopausal hormone therapy use increases the risk of ovarian cancer. In the present study, the authors examined the risks of different histologic types of ovarian cancer associated with hormone therapy. Using Danish national registers, the authors identified 909,946 women who were followed from 1995-2005. The women were 50-79 years of age and had no prior hormone-sensitive cancers or bilate...

Ovarian borderline serous tumors are uncommon. Combination of borderline serous adenofibromatous tumor and prominent micro papillary architecture is not previously reported. We report a case of borderline papillary serous adenofibromatous tumor (also called serous adenocarcinofibroma) with extensive micropapillary pattern in a 27 year-old married woman. She was infertile and presented with diff...

BACKGROUND It is known that the new membrane-bound estrogen receptor GPER-1 acts suppressive in breast cancer cells and its expression decreases during disease progression. This study was conducted to evaluate the GPER-1 expression in ovarian cancer and its correlation with progression. Its function was tested in vitro in ovarian cancer cells. PATIENTS AND METHODS GPER-1 expression was analyz...

A MEDLINE search was conducted using the keywords "laparoscopy ovarian cancer," "laparoscopy and borderline ovarian tumors," "advanced stage ovarian cancer," "laparoscopic cytoreduction ovarian cancer," "laparoscopy intraperitoneal catheter," "port-site metastases," and "carbon dioxide pneumoperitoneum." The publications were further limited to English-language articles, those addressing adnexa...