Clinicopathological features, prognosis, and fertility outcomes in Chinese Han women treated for ovarian yolk sac tumor: A retrospective case series study from two tertiary-care academic medical centers.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Ovarian yolk sac tumor (YST) is a very rare malignant tumor in young women. This study aimed to explore the clinicopathological prognostic characteristics and reproductive outcomes of Chinese Han patients.

Methods

To describe a case series study, we reviewed the clinicopathological data of 50 YST patients treated from 2 tertiary medical academic medical centers from January 2009 to December 2019. The Akaike information criterion was used to select variables. The influence of relevant characteristics on prognosis factors was analyzed by the Cox proportional hazard model.

Results

The median follow-up time was 64.5 months (range from 3 to 124 months). The median age was 22.7 years (3 to 34 years). Abdominal pain (54.0%) or mass (42.0%) were the most common clin

SUBMITTER: Qin L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9302259 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature