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Abstract

INTRODUCTION


In 1977 ovarian cancer was the fifth com­mon fatal form of cancer in USA.1 The epithelial ovarian tumours constituted about two third of all the primary ovarian neoplasms whereas malignant epithelial tumours were about 90% of all the ovarian cancers. The remaining 10% were mostly of the germ cell and sex cord stromal origin. 2
In majority of the menopausal women, the observation of a palpable adenexal mass, no matter how small, and the cytological findings of abnormal maturation of squamous cells in vaginal smear remain crude but valuable clues to the pos­sibility of an ovarian cancer3.
The aim of this retrospective study was to report 5 years’ experience in the histological interpretation of the ovarian tumours. The frequency, age distribution and histological classi­fication of the ovarian tumours is also worked out.