Table 1 Patient characteristics
From: Increasing experience in laparoscopic staging of early ovarian cancer
Characteristics | Number |
|---|---|
Patients | 25 |
Mean age in years (range) | 49.7 (18–79) |
BMI in kg/m2 (range) | 24.6 (17.4–36.5) |
Histological types | |
Adenocarcinoma | 16 |
Clear cell | 4 |
Borderline | 4 |
Other | 1 |
FIGO stage (before staging) | |
IA | 12 |
IB | 1 |
IC | 9 |
IIC | 2 |
Unknown | 1 |
Tumour grade | |
Grade 1 | 10 |
Grade 2 | 7 |
Grade 3 | 5 |
Unknown | 3 |
Procedures at initial surgery | |
Cystectomy | 3 |
Adnectomy | 11 |
Bilateral adnectomy | 5 |
Hysterectomy + adnectomy | 1 |
Hysterectomy + bilateral adnectomy | 4 |
No initial surgery | 1 |
Ovarian preservation procedure at secondary surgery | 4 |
Mean age in years (range) | 32.3 (18–41) |
Histologic type | |
Borderline | 2 |
Adenocarcinoma | 2 |