Department of Pathology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
Case Report
Steroid Cell Tumor-Not Otherwise Specified: A Not So Rare Tumor of Ovary
Author(s): Sahana Punneshetty*, Anitha Thomas, Sherin Daniel and Ashish Singh
Steroid cell tumor-not otherwise specified accounts for sixty percent of the rare steroid cell tumors.
These tumors are presumed to be of ovarian stromal cell origin. They are typically benign with one
third of them exhibiting malignant behaviour. Androgenic manifestations are common and are the
predominant complaints among these patients. They are slow growing in nature and are known for
late recurrences. Surgery is the gold standard treatment for both benign and malignant variants. Early
stages have good prognosis and good survival, inclusive of fertility sparing surgeries. There is no
standard of treatment with respect to advanced stages management and is usually customized to
patients. However, complete cytoreductive surgery plays a curative role in these cases similar to
epithelial ovarian tumors and is the initial step. Adjuvant therapy has evolved over t.. View More»
Spanish 
Chinese 
Russian 
German 
French 
Japanese 
Portuguese 
Hindi 