Sarcomatous tumor of the right ovary, removed by laparotomy in the gynecological department at the Mogilev obstetric institution

Unfortunately, we do not yet have accurate statistics of malignant neoplasms of the ovaries. Virkhov, for example, of the opinion that they are quite rare. In Schroeder's 600 cases of neoplasms of the ovaries, there are only 10 cases of malignant, consequently somewhat more than 1%. Wert in relation to ovarian cysts determines the frequency of dense neoplasms in 5%. Spencer Wells initially rose 1.72%, followed by even less 1.2%. Leopold), from a more distant time, there are only 8 cases of malignant neoplasms of the ovaries: 4 cases of Spencer Wélls, of which two were fatal, two cases of Spiegelberg, both were fatal, one case of Buren and one recovered a rural doctor whose patient died of a collapse shortly after the operation. Even if we assume that cases of malignant neoplasms of the ovaries are quite rare, then all the same, judging by the latest reports, it cannot be argued that this rarity would be in such a scale as the authors just cited for a longer time estimate it.