Classification
- ovarian serous tumors
- benign ovarian serous tumors
- proliferating ovarian serous tumors - borderline ovarian serous tumors
- ovarian serous carcinomas
- ovarian mucinous tumors
- pseudomyxoma peritonei
- benign ovarian mucinous tumors
- proliferating ovarian mucinous tumors - borderline mucinous tumors
- mucinous ovarian carcinomas
ovarian sex cord-stromal tumors
- thecoma-fibroma group
ovarian germ cell tumors
Macroscopical appearance
ovarian cystic tumors
ovarian surface epithelial tumors
Microscopical appearance
ovarian tumors with prominent spindle cells
Differential diagnosis
ovarian tumor-like lesions
- follicle cyst
- corpus luteum cyst
- ovarian remnant syndrome
- polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD)
- stroma hyperthecosis
- ovarian stromal hyperplasia
- ovarian massive edema
- ovarian fibromatosis
- hilus Leydig cell hyperplasia
- ovarian simple cyst
- ovarian idiopathic calcification
- uterus-like adnexal mass
- splenic gonadal fusion
- pregnancy luteoma
- hyperreactio luteinalis
- large solitary luteinized follicle cyst of pregnancy and puerperium
- granulosa cell proliferations of pregnancy
- hilus Leydig cell proliferation of pregancy
- ectopic decidua
- ovarian pregnancy
- ovarian endometriosis (ovarian endometriotic cyst)
- ovarian granulomas
- ovarian foreign body granulomas
- ovarian palisading granulomas
- ovarian granulomas secondary to systemic diseases
- ovarian infections
- ovarian bacterial infections
- ovarian actinomycosis
- ovarian tuberculosis
- ovarian malacoplakia
- ovarian bacterial infections
- ovarian fungal infections
- ovarian parasitic infections
- mesothelial proliferations
- surface epithelial-stromal proliferation
- autoimmune oophoritis
- ovarian torsion
- ovarian infarction
- ovarian changes secondary to metabolic diseases
- mucicarminophilic histiocytosis
See also
ovarian carcinomas
ovarian tumorigenesis
References
Shih IeM, Kurman RJ. Ovarian tumorigenesis: a proposed model based on morphological and molecular genetic analysis. Am J Pathol. 2004 May;164(5):1511-8. PMID: 15111296