Fatimah Zahra.
Parity and epithelial ovarian tumors
Pak J Med Health Sci Mar 2007;1(1):45-8.
Federal Government Hospital, Islamabad

Objective: To see the parity distribution in women with epithelial ovarian tumours and find out if there has been a protective effect of increasing parity. Design: A descriptive study. Setting: Federal Government Services Hospital, Islamabad. Patients and methods: This was a 2 year study carried out from January 2004 to December 2005. All patients above 19 years age who underwent laparotomy for a suspected ovarian tumour and whose histopathological report subsequently turned out to be of an epithelial ovarian tumour (n=62) were included in the study. Parity distribution in these patients was noted. Results: Parity distribution was nullipara 16(26%). multipara 46(74%), Women with parity 1-4 were 27(44%) and with parity above 5 were 19(30%). In patients with ovarian carcinoma maximum patients had parity of 3 and 8. Conclusion: It seems nulliparity is not a significant factor in the aetiology of both benign and malignant epithelial ovarian tumours and increasing parity has not been protective for women in our country.

Category: Obstetrics and Gynecology
Keywords: Ovarian Cancer. Cancer. Ovary. Nulliparity. Epithelial Tumors.

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