Meanings of borderline tumors in English

Objective: To retrospectively compare outcome after surgery by laparoscopy or laparotomy for borderline tumors.

Patients with borderline tumors of any stage have an excellent prognosis for preserving fertility options.

Diagnoses of borderline tumors by frozen and permanent pathology were consistent in 60% of cases.

Background: Conventional operations for benign and borderline tumors of the pancreatic body are distal pancreatectomy and enucleation.

Second malignancies and benign ovarian tumors were frequently found concomitantly with the borderline tumors or in follow-up.

Pelvic ultrasound showed a multilocular cyst at the right adnexal region, diagnosed as bilateral ovarian mucinous borderline tumors.

Patients with borderline tumors were excluded.

Patients with an unconfirmed cancer diagnosis, borderline tumors, intraepithelial neoplasms and metastatic cancers were excluded from the study.

Objective: Ovarian low-grade serous carcinomas are thought to evolve in a stepwise fashion from ovarian epithelial inclusions, serous cystadenomas, and serous borderline tumors.

Results: Histopathology showed benign tumors in 25 patients, borderline tumors in 13 patients, and malignant tumors in 95 patients.

Conclusion(s): Our findings of increased risk of ovarian cancer after gonadotropins and of borderline tumors after clomiphene treatment need to be interpreted with caution.

Borderline tumors represented 36% of epithelial ovarian malignancies.