Surgical Pathology of the Ovaries

Part 1 The fundamentals: embryology; surgical anatomy; histology; examination of the ovarian specimen; ovarian function and its laboratory evaluation. Part 2 Dysgenesis, dystopia and dysfunction: anomalies of ovarian development and descent; dysgenesis; ovarian failures; intersex; ovarian pathology and pregnancy; iatrogenic ovarian disease; dysfunctional cysts; polycystic ovarian disease; stromal hyperplasia and hyperthecosis; Leydig cell hyperplasia; massive oedema; adnexal torsion. Part 3 Inflammatory lesions. Part 4 Mullerianosis and surface proliferative lesions: mullerianosis and reactive mesothelial lesions; endometriosis. Part 5 Mullerian epithelial and mesenchymal tumours: tumours - serous, mucinous, endometrioid, clear cell, Brenner and mixed epithelial; undifferentiated carcinomas. Part 6 Sex cord-stromal tumours: granulosa cell tumours; thecoma-fibroma tumours; androblastomas; gynandroblastomas; sex cord tumour with annular tubules; lipid cell tumours. Part 7 Germ cell tumours: dysgerminomas; endodermal sinus tumours; embryonal carcinomas; polyembryomas; non-gestational choriocarcinomas; teratomas - mature and immature; teratomas with secondary malignant transformation; monodermal and highly specialised teratomas; mixed malignant germ cell tumours; germ cell-sex cord-stromal tumours. Part 8 Miscellaneous and metastatic tumours: mesenchymal tumours; metastatic melanoma, carcinoid and breast carcinomas; metastatic gastrointestinal carcinomas; lymphomas and leukaemias. Part 9 Appendices: ovary in systemic and dysgenetic syndromes; WHO classification of ovarian tumours; FIGO staging of ovarian tumours; para-endocrine syndromes and ovarian tumours.