Ovarian dysgerminoma. A clinico-pathologic study.

The authors present the clinical, pathologic and therapeutic report on 5 cases of ovarian dysgerminoma in patients between 15 and 30 years of age, classified as Stage Iai in 3 cases and Stage III in 2 cases. Treatment was surgical in 4 cases; in 1 case the surgery was followed by radiation and chemotherapy. All the patients survive free of disease from 4 to 11 years. One of these neoplasms showed a particular histologic pattern in some way similar to the "spermatocytic seminoma" of the testis. This should be the first time that such a type of ovarian dysgerminoma has been reported in the literature.