[Malignant tumours of the female sex organs in the autopsy material (author's transl)].

1209 malignant tumours of the female genital organs were revealed by post-mortem examinations at the Pathological Institute of the Martin-Luther-University, Halle (GDR), in the years 1961 to 1970. They constitute 28.6 per cent of a total of 4232 malignomas including leukemias and other systemic lymphoreticular diseases that were found in females of all age groups during this period. The genital tumours were analysed concerning the localization, age distribution, size, histological classification, invasion of adjacent organs, frequency of metastases, and recurrencies, 729 (= 60.3%) of the tumours originated from the uterus, 399 (= 33.0%) from the ovaries. 95.2 per cent of all tumours were carcinomas and 65.9 per cent developed metastases. The highest frequency of metastases has been found in ovarian tumours (= 89.5%). This was mainly due to the frequency of peritoneal carcinomatosis in patients suffering from these malignomas. It is remarkable that 19.5 per cent of the genital tumours were misdiagnosed by the clinicians.