[Conservative operations in malignant I-stage ovarian tumors]

The remote results of conservative operations in 16 patients with malignant ovarian tumors stage I are reported and compared with the results of treatment following radical (38) and nonradical (45) operations. Two thirds of conservatively operated patients (unilateral adnexectomy) survived for more than 5 years, over 50% of patients showed a 10-year survival. It is emphasized that saving operative procedures should not be performed in the presence of the factors aggravating the prognosis (proliferation of the tumor capsule, adhesions, a ruptured tumor capsule).