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. 1999 Aug;42(4):253–257.

Ovarian carcinoma of low maligant potential treated at the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, between 1973 and 1997

Vera Hinke 1,*, Markus C Martin 1,
PMCID: PMC3788992  PMID: 10459324

Abstract

Objective

To review the epidemiologic and pathological characteristics and the management of ovarian cancer of low malignant potential (LMP) at a university teaching institution.

Data source

Hospital charts from 1973 to 1997.

Data extraction

The authors carried out a manual study of the individual hospital charts covering the study period.

Data synthesis

The findings of this review revealed that the mean age of the 30 women in the study was 48.7 years and was similar in the subgroups of women having serous (18) and mucinous (9) types. In those women for whom staging information was available, all had either stage I disease (12 serous, 7 mucinous) or stage III disease (4 serous, 1 mucinous). Treatment consisted of: total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH) and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) with or without omentectomy (OM); BSO, unilateral oophorectomy or ovarian cystectomy alone; or TAH, OM and left salpingo-oophorectomy in women with stage I tumours. All women with stage III tumours underwent TAH, BSO and OM. The recurrence rate was low. Only 1 of 22 stage I tumours but 3 of 5 stage III tumours recurred.

Conclusions

Appropriate postoperative treatment for women with this type of ovarian cancer should be conservative. However, the management of higher stage disease remains controversial.

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