Prognosis of Japanese patients with ovarian clear cell carcinoma associated with pelvic endometriosis: Clinicopathologic evaluation

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 342-346

  Komiyama, Shin Ichi ^a   Aoki, Daisuke ^a   Tominaga, Eiichiro ^a   Susumu, Nobuyuki ^a   Udagawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Nozawa, Shiro ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clear cell carcinoma; Endometriosis; Ovarian cancer; Positive intraperitoneal cytology; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY;

EID: 0032980464     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.1998.5284     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Russell P, Bannatyne P. Surgical Pathology of the Ovaries. 1989;Churchill Livingstone, New York.
2. Russell P. Surface Epithelial-Stromal Tumor of the Ovary. Blaustein's Pathology of the Female Genital Tract. 1995;Springer-Verlag, New York. p. 752-762.
3. O'Brien M ER, Schofield J B, Tan S, Fryatt I, Fisher C, Wiltshaw E. Clear cell epithelial ovarian cancer (mesonephroid): bad prognosis only in early stages. Gynecol Oncol. 49:1993;250-254.
4. Scully R E, Barlos J F. "mesonephroma" of the ovary: tumor of Müllerian nature related to endometrioid carcinoma. Cancer. 20:1967;1405-1417.
5. Aure J C, Hoeg K, Kolstad P. Carcinoma of the ovary and endometriosis. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 50:1971;63-67.
6. Kurman R E, Craig J M. Endometrioid and clear cell carcinoma of the ovary. Cancer. 20:1972;1653-1664.
7. Mostoufizadeh M, Scully R E. Malignant tumors arising in endometriosis. Clin Obstet Gynecol. 23:1980;951-963.
8. Vercellini P, Parazzini F, Bolis G, Carinelli S, Dindelli M, Vendola N, Luchini L, Crosignani P G. Endometriosis and ovarian cancer. Am J Obstet Gynocol. 169:1993;181-182.
9. Cuesta R S, Eichhorn J H, Rice L W, Fuller A F, Nikrui N, Goff B A. Histologic transformation of benign endometriosis to early epithelial ovarian cancer. Gynecol Oncol. 60:1996;238-244.
10. Sampson J A. Endometrial carcinoma of the ovary, arising in endometrial tissue in that organ. Arch Surg. 10:1925;1.
11. Berek J S, Fu T S, Hacker N F. Ovarian Cancer. Berek J S. Novak's Gynecology. 1996;1155-1230 Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore.
12. Monga M, Carmichael J A, Shelly W E. Surgery without adjuvant chemotherapy for early epithelial ovarian carcinoma after comprehensive surgical staging. Gynecol Oncol. 43:1991;195-197.
13. Alexander W K, Charles V B, William R H. Ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma. Gynecol Oncol. 32:1989;342-349.
14. Takeuchi S, Dobashi K, Fujimoto S. A late phase II study of CPT-11 on uterine cervical cancer and ovarian cancer. Jpn J Cancer Chemother. 18:1991;1681-1689.
15. Swisher E M, Mutch D G, Rader J S. Topotecan in platinum- and paclitaxel-resistant ovarian cancer. Gynecol Oncol. 66:1997;480-486.
16. Thipgen J T, Blessing J A, Ball H. Phase II trial of paclitaxel in patients with progressive ovarian carcinoma after platinum-based chemotherapy. J Clin Oncol. 12:1994;1748-1753.
17. McGuire W P, Hoskins W J, Brady M F. Cyclophosphamide and cisplatin compared with paclitaxel and cisplatin in patients with stage III and stage IV ovarian cancer. N Engl J Med. 334:1996;1-6.
18. Kanzaki H, Wang H S, Kariya M. Suppression of natural killer cell activity by sera from patients with endometriosis. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 167:1992;257-261.
19. Oosterlynck D J, Vandeputte M, Meuleman C, Koninckx P R, Waer M. The natural killer activity of peritoneal fluid lymphocytes is decreased in women with endometriosis. Fertil Steril. 58:1992;290-295.
20. Hirata J, Kikuchi Y, Imaizumi E, Tode T, Nagata I. Endometriotic tissues produce immunosuppressive factors. Gynecol Obstet Invest. 37:1994;43-47.
21. Kauma S, Clark M R, White C, Halme J. Production of fibronectin by peritoneal macrophage and concentration of fibronectin in peritoneal fluid from patients with or without endometriosis. Obstet Gynecol. 72:1988;13-18.