Elsevier

Gynecologic Oncology

Volume 47, Issue 1, October 1992, Pages 71-75
Gynecologic Oncology

SGO article
Endometrioid carcinoma of the ovary and endometriosis: The association in postmenopausal women

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Abstract

Histologic material from 42 patients with endometrioid carcinomas of the ovary was reviewed. Ovarian endometriosis was present in 11 cases (26%) and 8 of these patients were postmenopausal. The exact site of transition from benign to malignant epithelium was observed in 4 cases. The clinical characteristics of patients with associated endometriosis were not significantly different from those without this finding except that endometriosis was present only in patients with Grade 1 or Grade 2 carcinomas. These data suggest that ovarian endometriosis in the postmenopausal patient has the potential to undergo malignant transformation and, when detected, should be removed surgically.

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    Presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists, San Antonio, TX, March 15–18, 1992.

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