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Original communication| Volume 20, ISSUE 4, P520-524, October 1946

Dysgerminoma of the ovary

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      Abstract

      • 1.
        1. Review of the literature shows some divergence of opinion as to the benign or malignant state of these tumors.
      • 2.
        2. Reports of cases of survival (both in the literature and in my series) are those in which the primary growth showed no evidence of extension.
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        3. These tumors are not radiosensitive.
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        4. Asymptomatology; normal secondary sex characteristics, and any age group are more often found than the reverse.
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