Ovary

Question 1

How are malignant serous carcinomas typed?

Answer 1

Either low grade or high grade

Question 2

Which type of cancers have a strong association with endometriosis of the ovary?

Answer 2

Clear cell and endometriod

Question 3

This type of tumour is composed of transitional type epithelium. Usually benign. (Borderline and malignant variants rare)

Answer 3

Brenner tumour

Question 4

Most common malignant primitive germ cell tumour

Answer 4

Dysgerminoma

-almost exclusively women and children (mean age 22)

Question 5

If ovarian tumours are small and bilateral what should you consider?

Answer 5

These may well be mets from a distant site (stomach, breast, colon, pancreas)

Question 6

Tricky thing about mucinous ovarian tumours?

Answer 6

If they’re bilateral and everywhere then you don’t really know if they are ovarian or from the GI tract (i.e. primary in GI tract)