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Epidermoid cyst and primary trabecular carcinoid of the ovary: case report

  • A. Azzena1
  • M. Zannol1
  • M. Bertezzolo1
  • T. Zen1
  • S. Chiarelli1,*,

1Department of Gynaecological Sciences and Human Reproduction, Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, Section of Pathology, Padua University, Italy

DOI: 10.12892/ejgo200204317 Vol.23,Issue 4,July 2002 pp.317-319

Published: 10 July 2002

*Corresponding Author(s): S. Chiarelli E-mail:

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Abstract

In the literature and in our experience epidermoid cysts and carcinoids of the ovary are rare benign pathologies which occur more frequently in younger women. They probably are a one-sided development of a teratoma, which arise from germ cells after the first meiotic division due to either a meiosis I or a meiosis II non dysjunction. Diagnosis is possible only with histological examination and immunohistochemistry which allow us to differentiate carcinoids from sex-cord tumors and ependymomas. Prognosis is very good because the rate of malignant transformation is 1.4%-2% and the rate of complications is 14%. Thus conservative surgical therapy associated with long-term follow-up is the treatment of choice.

Keywords

Ovarian epidermoid cyst; Ovarian trabecular carcinoid

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A. Azzena,M. Zannol,M. Bertezzolo,T. Zen,S. Chiarelli. Epidermoid cyst and primary trabecular carcinoid of the ovary: case report. European Journal of Gynaecological Oncology. 2002. 23(4);317-319.

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