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- Title
Utility of ovarian biopsy in pancreatic metastasis of high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma: A case report.
- Authors
KOHEI NAKAMURA; KENTARO NAKAYAMA; MASAKO ISHIKAWA; NORIYOSHI ISHIKAWA; MAMIKO NAGASE; HIROSHI KATAGIRI; TOMOKA ISHIBASHI; EMI SATO; KOHJI IIDA; RAZIA SULTANA; SATORU KYO
- Abstract
It is very rare that ovarian carcinoma metastasizes to the pancreas, and pathological diagnosis is required to confirm the primary site. The present study reported a 73-year-old woman with serous carcinoma of the ovary that metastasized to the tail of the pancreas. Metastasis was confirmed by pathological and immunohistochemical examination of a biopsy of the ovarian tumor, an endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the pancreatic tumor and computerized tomography-guided paraaortic lymph node biopsy. A biopsy of the ovarian tumor is useful to make a precise diagnosis and to determine proper treatment when ovarian and pancreatic tumors are identified at the same time and the primary neoplasm is uncertain.
- Subjects
OVARIAN cancer; BIOPSY
- Publication
Molecular & Clinical Oncology, 2016, Vol 5, Issue 1, p41
- ISSN
2049-9450
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.3892/mco.2016.886