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Ovarian dysgerminoma in three generations?

1967; BMJ; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/jmg.4.2.112

1468-6244

Suzanne Jackson,

Ovarian function and disorders

Dysgerminoma of the ovary is a rare disease rep- resenting about 1% of malignant ovarian tumours (Sjovall, 1943).Some 650 cases have been re- corded in the world literature, but there have been no reports of a family history of the disease.This paper describes patients in three generations of a Jamaican family with ovarian tumours, two of whom were known to have had dysgerminomas. Case ReportsThe three patients under review were a maternal grandmother, mother, and daughter, and they will be referred to as such (Figure ).The grandmother (I. 2) died in Jamaica in 1940, and