[Treatment of malignant dysembryomas of the ovary. Apropos of 14 cases].

Fourteen cases with a malignant dysembroma of the ovary were treated by resection, postoperative radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy. Eight of the 14 patients survived 2 years and 2 out of 7 are still alive 5 years later. The prognosis depends mainly on the initial stage of the disease. Radiotherapy but most of all chemotherapy may improve the survival rate even in the advanced forms of the disease. The proposed therapy is initial extensive surgery followed by chemotherapy in all cases. Also radiotherapy in those cases in which the resection was considered incomplete.