TY - JOUR
T1 - Jejunal Metastasis Colliding with a Borderline Tumor in the Ovary
T2 - A Hitherto Unreported Eventuality
AU - Piana, Simonetta
AU - Giunta, Alessandro
AU - Valli, Riccardo
PY - 2015/10/3
Y1 - 2015/10/3
N2 - Metastatic adenocarcinomas to the ovary can show morphologically innocuous areas simulating primary benign lesions or borderline tumors. Ruling out a metastasis can be a difficult issue for pathologists, especially when facing with cystic tumors. Because of the important clinical implications of differentiating metastatic adenocarcinomas from primary ovarian tumors, the integration of clinical, pathological, and immunohistochemical features is warranted, primarily in case of mucinous adenocarcinomas. Vice versa, the synchronous presence of a metastasis and a primary in the same ovary is virtually excluded as a very unlikely eventuality. Here, we describe a case of metastatic adenocarcinoma from the jejunum colliding with a seromucinous borderline tumor in the same ovary, an unreported eventuality so far.
AB - Metastatic adenocarcinomas to the ovary can show morphologically innocuous areas simulating primary benign lesions or borderline tumors. Ruling out a metastasis can be a difficult issue for pathologists, especially when facing with cystic tumors. Because of the important clinical implications of differentiating metastatic adenocarcinomas from primary ovarian tumors, the integration of clinical, pathological, and immunohistochemical features is warranted, primarily in case of mucinous adenocarcinomas. Vice versa, the synchronous presence of a metastasis and a primary in the same ovary is virtually excluded as a very unlikely eventuality. Here, we describe a case of metastatic adenocarcinoma from the jejunum colliding with a seromucinous borderline tumor in the same ovary, an unreported eventuality so far.
KW - adenocarcinoma
KW - borderline tumor
KW - immunohistochemistry
KW - metastasis
KW - ovary
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U2 - 10.1177/1066896915583997
DO - 10.1177/1066896915583997
M3 - Article
C2 - 25911566
AN - SCOPUS:84940639440
VL - 23
SP - 567
EP - 570
JO - International Journal of Surgical Pathology
JF - International Journal of Surgical Pathology
SN - 1066-8969
IS - 7
ER -