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Primary Site. The ovaries are a pair of solid, flattened ovoids 2–4 cm in diameter that are connected by a peritoneal fold to the broad ligament and by the infundibulopelvic ligament to the lateral wall of the pelvis (Figure 37.1). They are attached medially to the uterus by the utero-ovarian ligament.
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Compton, C.C., Byrd, D.R., Garcia-Aguilar, J., Kurtzman, S.H., Olawaiye, A., Washington, M.K. (2012). Ovary and Primary Peritoneal Carcinoma. In: Compton, C., Byrd, D., Garcia-Aguilar, J., Kurtzman, S., Olawaiye, A., Washington, M. (eds) AJCC Cancer Staging Atlas. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2080-4_37
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