Background:

Ovarian tumors are an increasing cause for morbidity and mortality world over due to late presentation.They have different cell origin and different histopathological picture.

Objective:

To study the different histopathological types of ovarian tumors in the different age groups

Materials and Methods:

This retrospective study included all histopathologically proven ovarian tumors reported in Department of PathologyMIMER Medical College Talegaon Dabhade Puneover 5 years period  from January 2013 to December 2017.All the clinical and histopathological data was obtained from records and was analyzed.

Results :

Out of 72 ovarian tumors included, 87.50% were benign,2.78% were borderline and 9.72% were malignant.Suface epithelial tumors were most common (75%) followed by Germ cell tumors(20.83%) Benign surface epithelial tumors comprised 76.19% of all benign tumors whereas their malignant surface epithelial tumors comprised 57.14% of all malignant tumors.

Conclusion :

Benign tumors are more common than malignant tumors in all age groups.Surface epithelial tumors are the most common of all tumors.Serous cystadenomas were most common benign tumors where as Serous cystadenocarcinoma was the  most common malignant tumor.