Received March 20, 2004; accepted May 28, 2004, Chinese Journal of Clinical Oncotgy Email: COCR~evou.com TelIFax): 86-22-2352-2919 OBJECTIVE Ovarian dysgerminoma is an uncommon ovarian malignancy. Its clinical features are special and there are many factors affecting its prognosis, tf treated properly, the patient can be cured. Otherwise it may endanger the patient's life. The aim of this study...

OBJECTIVE To establish the spectrum of presentation, natural history and gynaecological outcomes in women with Swyer syndrome. DESIGN Retrospective notes review. SETTING Tertiary referral centre for disorders of sex development. POPULATION A total of 29 adult women with Swyer syndrome. METHODS Information was collected on age at diagnosis, biometric characteristics, timing of gonadectom...

A 35-year-old woman presented with abdominal pain and weight loss. Pelvic computed tomography showed a 15 cm mass in the left ovary. Grossly, the removed ovary was completely replaced by a solid tumor mass. On histological analysis (100 sections), the lesion showed the typical morphological features of dysgerminoma (20%) admixed with a major (80%) fibrosarcoma component. Tumors did not have wel...

objective: to report a case of long-term disease free and successful pregnancy after fertility sparing staging surgery with adjuvant chemotherapy in a 46,xy gonadal dysgenetic with malignant germ cell tumor. materials and methods: a case report from a university hospital about a 19-year-old female with 46,xy karyotype ( swyer syndrome). the patient underwent bilateral gonadectomy and staging wi...