clinicopathological study of 107 ovarian tumours

One hundred and seven patients operated for ovarian tumours were assessed clinically and histoio-gically. Most patients were multiparous, between 19 - 39 years of age, presenting with low abdominal pain, pelvic mass, vague gastrointestinal symptoms and bleeding per vaginum. Histologically 72.85% tumours were benign and 27.06% malignant. Mucinous epithelial tumour was the commonest type of tumour. Serous epithelial tumours were 22 [14 benign, 8 malignant]. There were 33 teratomas of ovary, majority being benign and only 2 were malignant. The tumours of stromal cell origin were seen in 6.5% cases