Background: Ovarian tumors are common forms of malignancy in women & mortality rate because of ovarian malignancy is increasing now a days. Present study is thesis topic consist of retrospective & prospective study of 130 ovarian tumours was carried out at department of pathology, NKP Salve institute of medical science Nagpur from June 2005 to May 2010. Commonest tumour was surface epithelial stromal tumour constituting 97(74.61%) cases followed by germ cell tumors 24(18.46% ) cases, sex cord stromal tumour 7(5.38 %) & metastatic tumor 2(1.53%)Out of 130 cases, 113(86.92%) were benign tumors & 15 (11.53%) were malignant surface epithelial tumour. Only 2(1.53%) were borderline.Commonest clinical presentation in all ovarian tumors was pain (49.23%) & lump (38.46%) in abdomen.

Keywords: Ovarian Neoplasms; Surface Epithelial Tumor; Bening; Malignant.