A Case of Primary Trabecular Carcinoid Tumor of the Ovary

Choi, C R; Park, J J; Kang, J O; So, Y H; Rho, Y H; Lee, C W

Abstract

Primary trabecular carcinoid tumor of the ovary is an very rare ovarian tumor, behaving like a tumor of low malignant potential. It mostly occurs in women between 20 and 50 years of age and constitutes less than 1 % of all carcinoid tumors. Ovarian carcinoid tumor is frequent coexistence of mature or immature teratoid components. Ovarian carcinoids, without other teratomatous components, are solid, grey-yellow tumors, usually well-encapsuled and slightly lobulated. When other teratomatous components coexist, cystic and semicystic foci are seen. In the younger patient, the treatment is unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, while in the postmenopausal patient bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and hysterectomy is the treatment of choice. Chemotherapy or radiotherapy was not needful. Authors have experienced a case of primary trabecular carcinoid tumor of the ovary in a 17 year-old woman, and report with a brief literature review.