Low-Grade Invasive Serous Carcinoma of the Ovary


D efinition An invasive low-grade serous carcinoma.

Clinical Features

Epidemiology

  • The less common serous carcinoma. Predominates in the fourth to sixth decades of life, but can be seen at virtually any age.

  • Can arise in a serous borderline tumor (SBT) or SBT with complex architecture (intraepithelial carcinoma).

  • Associated with mutations in regulators of the MAPK pathway (KRAS, BRAF, ERBB2) in about two thirds of tumors.

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