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Giant ovarian cancer weighing 100 kg with poor prognosis
Author(s) -
Yanazume Yumi,
Yoshinaga Mitsuhiro,
Yanazume Shintaro,
Kamikihara Tetsuya,
Tokunaga Makoto,
Kamio Masaki,
Douchi Tsutomu
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1447-0756
pISSN - 1341-8076
DOI - 10.1111/j.1447-0756.2007.00487.x
Subject(s) - medicine , ovarian cancer , peritoneum , disseminated intravascular coagulation , cancer , surgery
We encountered a patient with giant ovarian cancer with a tumor weight of 100 kg. The patient's girth measured 198 cm after approximately 4 years' duration, and she complained of dyspnea and inability to walk. Adnectomy was performed with intensive intraoperative monitoring. The ovarian cancer was entirely adherent to the parietal peritoneum. However, 10 h after adnectomy, she died of massive abdominal bleeding from extremely redundant parietal peritoneum caused by disseminated intravascular coagulation.