RECURRENT OVARIAN MALIGNANCY PRESENTING AS CUTANEOUS METASTASIS

Cutaneous metastasis from ovarian carcinoma is relatively uncommon in clinical practice. We report the case of the woman who presented to us with clitoral nodules and skin nodules. Histopathological examination of nodules confirmed the diagnosis of metastasis of an ovarian carcinoma. Despite poor pr...

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Autores principales: Karpate, Shilpaja J, Samal, Swarnlata L, Jain, Suchi M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2807720/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20101345
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.57620
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author Karpate, Shilpaja J
Samal, Swarnlata L
Jain, Suchi M
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Samal, Swarnlata L
Jain, Suchi M
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description Cutaneous metastasis from ovarian carcinoma is relatively uncommon in clinical practice. We report the case of the woman who presented to us with clitoral nodules and skin nodules. Histopathological examination of nodules confirmed the diagnosis of metastasis of an ovarian carcinoma. Despite poor prognosis, the patient responded and survived well beyond the expected four months survival of similar cases.
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spelling pubmed-28077202010-01-25 RECURRENT OVARIAN MALIGNANCY PRESENTING AS CUTANEOUS METASTASIS Karpate, Shilpaja J Samal, Swarnlata L Jain, Suchi M Indian J Dermatol Case Report Cutaneous metastasis from ovarian carcinoma is relatively uncommon in clinical practice. We report the case of the woman who presented to us with clitoral nodules and skin nodules. Histopathological examination of nodules confirmed the diagnosis of metastasis of an ovarian carcinoma. Despite poor prognosis, the patient responded and survived well beyond the expected four months survival of similar cases. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2807720/ /pubmed/20101345 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.57620 Text en © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Karpate, Shilpaja J
Samal, Swarnlata L
Jain, Suchi M
RECURRENT OVARIAN MALIGNANCY PRESENTING AS CUTANEOUS METASTASIS
title RECURRENT OVARIAN MALIGNANCY PRESENTING AS CUTANEOUS METASTASIS
title_full RECURRENT OVARIAN MALIGNANCY PRESENTING AS CUTANEOUS METASTASIS
title_fullStr RECURRENT OVARIAN MALIGNANCY PRESENTING AS CUTANEOUS METASTASIS
title_full_unstemmed RECURRENT OVARIAN MALIGNANCY PRESENTING AS CUTANEOUS METASTASIS
title_short RECURRENT OVARIAN MALIGNANCY PRESENTING AS CUTANEOUS METASTASIS
title_sort recurrent ovarian malignancy presenting as cutaneous metastasis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2807720/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20101345
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.57620
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