[Peritoneal gliomatosis in ovarian teratoma]

Two observations of gliomatosis of the peritoneum in patients with mature teratomas of the ovaries are described. Growths of neuroglia in the omentum had diffuse and on the peritoneum nodular appearance, the nodes reaching up to 8 cm in diameter. No differences in the structural maturity of neuroglia in primary tumors of the ovaries and in implants were observed. Both patients underwent repeated operations, received multiple courses of chemotherapy and are apparently normal. One of them has been observed for 2 and the other for 5 years after the first visit to the physician.