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Sarcomas in ovarian mucinous tumors. A report of two cases
Author(s) -
Prat Jaime,
Scully Robert E.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197910)44:4<1327::aid-cncr2820440425>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - medicine , ovary , pathology
Two sarcomas that appeared as distinct solitary nodules in the walls of ovarian mucinous cystic tumors are described. One of the tumors was a fibrosarcoma associated with a mucinous cystadenoma; the other was an undifferentiated sarcoma in a mucinous cystadenocarcinoma. Both patients died within 11/2 years of their operations with distant metastasis; one of them had had metastatic sarcoma in the para‐aortic lymph nodes at the time of exploration. These two cases are the only well‐documented examples of this unusual combination of tumor types.