Psammocarcinoma is a rare form of serous carcinoma of the ovary or peritoneum, and it is characterised by extensive psammoma body formation and invasion of surrounding structures. This report describes the case of a 42-year-old woman who presented with large ascites and raised CA125 level. Following a full staging laparotomy, she was made stable in stage IIIC. Despite the limited number of cases reported, the clinical prognosis of carcinomas resembling the serous borderline lesions seems much more favourable than the common serous carcinomas. A summary of all the reported cases is provided to highlight the clinical and prognostic features of this scarce tumour.

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Drilling into fractured reservoirs demands an understanding of the fracture distribution and the associated stress eld to reduce the risk of failure. The seismic method provides the key to this risk reduction. Here, assuming fracture-related azimuthal anisotropy, we present a generalization of existing formulae for fracture detection. This uses the three P-wave attributes, amplitude, NMO velocity and traveltime, derived from marine seismic data shot along orthogonal directions. The attribute eld formed between two orthogonal survey lines displays a cos 2 variation with the line azimuth measured relative to the fracture strike. Thus, two pairs of orthogonal lines may be used to quantify the fracture strike b y cross-plotting these attributes. The technique is applied to data from the North Sea and veri ed using full-wave modelling.

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