Clinical and sonographic features of uncommon primary ovarian malignancies

✍ Scribed by Juan Luis Alcázar; Stefano Guerriero; María Ángela Pascual; Silvia Ajossa; Begoña Olartecoechea; Lourdes Hereter

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 473 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2751
• DOI: 10.1002/jcu.20905

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Purpose.

To describe the gray‐scale and color Doppler ultrasound features of uncommon (<5% prevalence) primary malignant ovarian tumors.

Methods:

Retrospective analysis of 98 masses in 89 patients (median age: 50.4 years old, ranging from 15 to 81 years) diagnosed as having an uncommon primary ovarian malignancy. All patients had undergone transvaginal color Doppler ultrasound according to a standardized protocol prior to surgical tumor removal. Ultrasound features analyzed were laterality, presence of ascites, tumor volume, morphologic appearance (unilocular, multilocular, unilocular‐solid, multilocular‐solid, and solid), and color Doppler score (subjective assessment of the amount of flow as absent, scanty, moderate, or abundant).

Results.

Pathological diagnoses included uncommon epithelial tumors (n = 59), germ cell tumors (n = 10), sex cord‐stromal tumors (n = 11), sarcoma (n = 9), and lymphoma (n = 9). Germ cell tumors presented in younger women (p < 0.001). Germ cell tumors, sex cord‐stromal tumors, sarcomas, and lymphomas were significantly more often solid as compared with epithelial malignancies, which appeared more frequently as complex (cystic‐solid) tumors (p < 0.001). There were no differences in color Doppler score between the various types of tumors.

Conclusions.

Germ cell tumors, sex cord‐stromal tumors, sarcomas, and lymphomas tend to appear as unilateral solid tumors. Color Doppler score is not useful for discriminating among uncommon primary ovarian malignancies. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound, 2012