Borderline tumors of the ovary : Fertility treatment, conservative management, and pregnancy outcome

✍ Scribed by Walter H. Gotlieb; Sharon Flikker; Ben Davidson; Yaacov Korach; Juri Kopolovic; Gilad Ben-Baruch

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 75 KB
• Volume: 82
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19980101)82:1<141::aid-cncr17>3.0.co;2-2

✦ Synopsis

Seventeen patients did benefit from contralateral ovarian dissection Sackler School of Medicine, Sheba Medical Ceneither by cystectomy or oophorectomy because of contralateral benign or borderter, Tel Hashomer, Israel. line disease. Eleven patients had received or were scheduled to receive ovulation induction. Five patients were diagnosed during the evaluation, and another two were diagnosed so soon after the initiation of ovulation induction that a causative relationship appeared to be unlikely. Six patients were diagnosed during ongoing pregnancies. Twenty-two pregnancies were achieved in 15 patients after conservative treatment. No influence of the disease or its treatment on the pregnancy (or vice versa) was observed during a mean follow-up of 69 months.

CONCLUSIONS.

Data are accumulating that indicate conservative fertility-sparing disease management is adequate treatment for patients with borderline tumors. Available data indicate that in these patients fertility, pregnancy outcome, and survival remain excellent.