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48. Tubal carcinoma

48.1 General considerations

Primary carcinoma of the fallopian tube is the rarest cancer of the female genital tract. Due to similarity of the clinical presentation, the staging and therapeutic management have been adapted to that of ovarian cancer (see 39).

Literature: e.g.

BAEKELANDT et al, Cancer 89 (2000): 2076-2084 (study of clinical case records from 151 patients)

FRIEDRICH et al, Eur. J. Gynaecol. Oncol. 19 (1998): 138-143 (retrospective analysis of cases with a literature review)

SCHNEIDER et al, Eur. J. Gynaecol. Oncol. 21 (2000): 578-582 (report of 19 cases with a literature review )