Pregnancy after in vitro fertilization in a patient with borderline tumor of the ovary.

A 36 year old woman with unilateral tubal disease was found, during infertility evaluation, to have epithelial tumor of borderline malignancy in one ovary. She was treated with salpingo-oophorectomy and three months later she asked to participate in our IVF program. High doses of gonadotropins were given for controlled hyperstimulation and a successful pregnancy and live birth was achieved.