Bilateral Primary Carcinoma of the Fallopian Tubes

Primary carcinoma of the tubes is extremely rare, and its bilateral occurrence is necessarilyall the more rare. The condition was first described by Raynaud in 1847, and the first pathological description was given by Rokitansky in 1861. Doran reviewed one hundred cases up to the end of 1910. Bower and Clark in 1925 added another series of one hundred and thirtythree cases collected from various sources. In 1929 Wharton and Krock brought the subject up to date with a collection of two hundred and forty-four cases. Kahn and Norris (1934) in their excellent review brought the literature further up to date, collecting two hundred and seventy reported cases and adding four more of their own. In all, up to the end of 1935 three hundred and forty-nine cases of tubal carcinoma had been recorded. Since then McGlinn and Harer (1933), Martzloff (1940), Phaneuf (1938), Smith (1932), Dannreuther (1935), Robinson (1936), Tuta and Stuhr (1941) and others have each added one or two