Brief Communications Ovarian diseases at King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital

he prevention, diagnosis, and management of ovarian diseases especially neoplastic lesions continue to challenge clinicians caring for women of all ages. The medical community and the public are well aware of the high mortality rate associated with the diagnosis of epithelial ovarian carcinoma and that it is responsible for approximately 15,000 deaths annually in the United States of America.1 Although, there has been tremendous improvement in the survival rate of young women with germ cell ovarian malignancies, the same has not been true for women with epithelial ovarian carcinoma. The most important positive prognosticator for improved survival of patients with ovarian carcinoma is diagnosis at an early stage. For this reason, significant resource