Germ cell tumors of the ovary.

During the review period, a number of papers were published reporting series of patients with malignant ovarian germ cell tumors and describing the increasingly successful worldwide trend observed in treatment of such patients. Publications dealing solely with the successful management of patients with pure dysgerminoma, using surgery followed by chemotherapy which is less likely to affect fertility compared with radiation therapy, will be discussed separately. A clinicopathological study of ovarian carcinoid tumors was also reported. Case reports describing gonadoblastomas in patients with an apparent absence of Y chromosome material were published and will be discussed.