Abstract
Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynaecological malignancy, with epithelial tumours being the largest group (90%). Although most ovarian tumours create no histological diagnostic problems, a small proportion may be subject to misinterpretation resulting in serious clinical implications. The following are the most commonly encountered problems in surgical pathology practice: (1) deciding whether a malignant ovarian tumour is primary or secondary; (2) the problem of borderline epithelial tumours; (3) misinterpretation of some variants of endometrioid carcinoma; (4) realizing the existence of an admixture of epithelial patterns in a single tumour - e.g. serous plus endometrioid, endometrioid plus clear cell plus serous, etc.; and (5) distinguishing poorly differentiated carcinomas from non-epithelial undifferentiated tumours. In this review an attempt to address these problems is presented with some illustrative examples. Crown
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 473-499 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Current Diagnostic Pathology |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2004 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Cancer
- Differential diagnosis
- Metastatic
- Ovary
- Primary