Mean platelet volume as a prognostic factor in ovarian lesions

Even nowadays the diagnostic of ovarian cancer is difficult to be established preoperatively, and therefore a significant number of patients are submitted to a much too extensive or to an incomplete surgical procedure. Therefore attention was focused on identifying more reliable markers which might help the clinician to distinguish between benign and malignant ovarian lesions. The aim of the current paper is to analyze the differences between benign and malignant ovarian tumors based on the preoperative levels of the mean platelet volume.