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PubMed1967

Primary tumours of the fallopian tube: a report of eight cases of adenocarcinoma and one case of unusual carcinoma.

Nine patients with primary tumour of the fallopian tube were seen at the Royal Marsden Hospital and Chelsea Hospital for Women, London. All the tumours except one were adenocarcinomas. Histologically, the exception resembled an adenomatoid tumour, but was clinically malignant and had some features of a hemangiopericytoma.Postoperative irradiation did not increase survival. The only five-year survivor was a patient who received radiation therapy for a late local recurrence.

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PubMed1966

Primary carcinoma of the ovary: a review of 150 cases, with an appraisal of the fallopian tube as a pathway of spread.

One hundred and fifty cases of primary ovarian carcinoma were reviewed to assess the relationship between survival and secondary involvement of the fallopian tube. Five-year crude survival rates were calculated according to stage of disease, histological type and method of treatment.Frequency of involvement of the tube in 30 cases so examined increased with anatomical extension of disease, but this route of spread was not considered significant. Invasion occurred chiefly in serous or peritubular lymph spaces. Intraluminal emboli of tumour cells were found in only three specimens, while submucosal spread was seen once. Invasion of the tubular musculature was never demonstrated. Endometrial deposits were rare. Postoperative radiation therapy after simple surgical procedures not only gave survival rates comparable to those obtained after radical surgery alone, but also controlled metastatic disease for at least three years and increased the five-year survival in Stage III disease.

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