Abstract
Lymphosarcoma in the Ovary in Young African Girls in Nigeria
Highlights
The occurrence of lymphosarcoma in young African girls involving the ovaries as the most conspicuous site is of such frequency at University College Hospital, Ibadan, as to warrant description
Elmes and Baldwin (1947) found that 5.3 per cent of 1000 tumours in Nigeria were lymphosarcomas; Edington (1956) reported that lymphosarcoma and reticulum cell sarcoma together formed 5-7 per cent of 1193 malignant tumours obtained from autopsies and biopsies in the Gold Coast, and Camain (1954) found 9.6 per cent of cases of lymphosarcoma among 1884 malignant tumours in French West Africa
Two undifferentiated round cell tumours of uncertain nature which occurred in the ovaries of girls aged 10 and 15 years were reported by Davies and Wilson (1954), and Edington (1956) mentions two girls aged 6 years who had bilateral ovarian tumours which were considered to be dysgerminomas
Summary
G. JACKSON From the Department of Pathology, University College, Ibal4a~, Nigeria. LYMPHOSARCOMA is generally considered to be a disease predominlantly of mniddle and old age though it is not rare in youth. The occurrence of lymphosarcoma in young African girls involving the ovaries as the most conspicuous site is of such frequency at University College Hospital, Ibadan, as to warrant description. During the years 1958 and 1959 the total number of malignant tumours among 1286 post-mortem examinations at this hospital was 107. The diagnosis of lymphosarcoma or reticulum cell sarcoma was made in 25 cases and in 7 of those the patients were girls under 14 years old
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