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Pathology of Ovary: Sex Cord Tumours

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This chapter provides illustrations and descriptions of pure sex cord tumours, pure stromal tumours and mixed sex cord stromal tumours of ovary. In addition to the gross and microphotographs of these tumours, the salient clinical, gross, immunohistochemistry and molecular pathology of these tumours are also described.

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Dey, P. (2019). Pathology of Ovary: Sex Cord Tumours. In: Color Atlas of Female Genital Tract Pathology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1029-4_8

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