PURE IMMATURE TERATOMA OF THE OVARY - ANALYSIS OF 22 CASES

Between 1970 and 1991, 22 patients with pure immature teratoma were tr eated at the Center of Oncology in Krakow. Sixteen (72.7%) patients ha d stage I, four (18.2%) stage II, and two (9.1%) stage III of disease, nine (40.9%) patients had grade 1, 11 (50%) grade 2, and two (9.1%) g rade 3 tumors. Eight stage Ia, grade 1 patients were treated with surg ery only, the remaining 14 (63.6%) received postoperative chemotherapy . Five-year NED (no evidence of disease) survival was achieved in 81.8 % of patients. Out of 16 stage I patients, 15 (93.8%) survived 5-year NED, out of six stage II and III, three (50%) patients only survived t his period. We cured ail grade I patients, and 81.8% (9/11) grade 2; t wo grade 3 patients died because of tumors, We also cured all six stag e In patients, treated with unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy; (with or without chemotherapy), and all eight stage 1a grade 1 patients treate d with surgery only.