Endocrine Abstracts

Struma Ovarii and its malignant transformation to thyroid-type carcinoma are rare conditions. In recent reviews of reported literatures, only 53 cases of papillary thyroid-type carcinoma arising from struma ovarii were documented from 1924 to 2008. Due to the rarity of the disease, lack of uniform histological criteria for malignancy and protracted clinical course, its management is not also universally accepted by physicians. The aim of this paper is to present a very rare ca...