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Brenner's tumour
Also known as:
Orthmann's tumour
Synonyms:
Brenneroma, oophoroma.
Associated persons:
Fritz Brenner
Ernst Gottlob Orthmann
Description:
An ovarian tumour of follicular origin, usually occurring in elderly women. It is almost always a unilateral fibroepithelioma of the ovary, without known endocrine activity. The tumours are characterized by the presence of islands of stratified epithelial cells. Lumina in some foci may be filled with a globular mass resembling degeneration ova in follicles undergoing atresia. It is almost always benign. Aetiology unknown.
Bibliography:
- E. G. Orthmann:
Zur Casuistik einiger seltener Ovarial- und Tuben-Tumoren.
Monatsschrift für Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie, Berlin, 1899, 9: 771-782.
- E. G. Orthmann:
Über die Entstehungsweisen der Sacrosalpingen und Tubo-Ovarialcysten.
[Virchows] Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie, und für klinische Medizin, Berlin, 1899, 155: 220-234.
- F. Brenner:
Das Oophoroma folliculare.
Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Pathologie, München, 1907, 1: 150-171.
- J. V. Ricci:
One Hundred Years of Gynecology. Philadelphia : Blackiston, 1945.
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