OVARIAN EPITHELIAL TUMOR IN GONADAL-DYSGENESIS A CASE-REPORT AND LITERATURE-REVIEW

A patient with gonadal dysgenesis was found to have a mucinous epithel ial ovarian tumour on the left side and a streak gonad on the right. T he preponderance of mucinous tumours (5 of 8) over other epithelial ru mours in these patients is noted but the significance is not fully und erstood. Two models of pathogenesis (incessant ovulation and hypergona dotrophic hypogonadism) were proposed but neither satisfactorily expla ins the development of the tumours. Further ultrastructural, chromosom al and molecular biological study of these tumours may help to elucida te the underlying cause and pathogenesis.