Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9327704 | Gynecologic Oncology | 2005 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The vast majority of benign serous tumors may not be bona fide epithelial neoplasms, but rather, may represent cystically dilated glandular inclusions (cystadenomas) and fibromas with epithelial inclusions (cystadenofibromas). A recently published study evaluating clonality in serous cystadenomas found that the vast majority are polyclonal and thus supports this hypothesis. These findings have important implications for the pathogenesis of ovarian cancer, for the distribution of ovarian neoplasms, and for the interpretation of molecular biological studies of ovarian tumors.
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Authors
Jeffrey D. Seidman, Anupamjit Mehrotra,