Difference between revisions of "Miscellaneous ovarian tumours"

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===General===
===General===
*Hypercalcemia.<ref name=pmid7943531>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Young | first1 = RH. | last2 = Oliva | first2 = E. | last3 = Scully | first3 = RE. | title = Small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcemic type. A clinicopathological analysis of 150 cases. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 18 | issue = 11 | pages = 1102-16 | month = Nov | year = 1994 | doi =  | PMID = 7943531 }}</ref>
*Hypercalcemia.<ref name=pmid7943531>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Young | first1 = RH. | last2 = Oliva | first2 = E. | last3 = Scully | first3 = RE. | title = Small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcemic type. A clinicopathological analysis of 150 cases. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 18 | issue = 11 | pages = 1102-16 | month = Nov | year = 1994 | doi =  | PMID = 7943531 }}</ref>
*Rare.
*Very rare.
*Most common undifferentiated ovarian malignancy in individuals less than 40 years old.<ref name=pmid24658002/>
*Associated with SMARCA4 mutations - may be familial.<ref name=pmid24658002>{{cite journal |author=Witkowski L, Carrot-Zhang J, Albrecht S, ''et al.'' |title=Germline and somatic SMARCA4 mutations characterize small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcemic type |journal=Nat. Genet. |volume=46 |issue=5 |pages=438–43 |year=2014 |month=May |pmid=24658002 |doi=10.1038/ng.2931 |url=}}</ref>


===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===