Bilateral Ovarian Krukenberg Tumor in a Full-Term Pregnancy

Objective. Krukenberg tumors in pregnancy are very rare and their management can present a dilemma for the obstetrician gynecologist. Case Report. We present the case of a G3P2002 who presented to us and the 38 weeks gestation with bilateral massive Krukenberg tumors. Despite at surgery and chemothe...

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Autores principales: Dueñas-García, Omar Felipe, Diaz-Sotomayor, Maricela, Chanana, Charu
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Scholarly Research Network 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3100118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21637363
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/620380
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author Dueñas-García, Omar Felipe
Diaz-Sotomayor, Maricela
Chanana, Charu
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Diaz-Sotomayor, Maricela
Chanana, Charu
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description Objective. Krukenberg tumors in pregnancy are very rare and their management can present a dilemma for the obstetrician gynecologist. Case Report. We present the case of a G3P2002 who presented to us and the 38 weeks gestation with bilateral massive Krukenberg tumors. Despite at surgery and chemotherapy she died 3 months postpartum. Conclusion. Early detection followed by surgery and chemotherapy could possibly result in a favorable outcome with such patients.
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spelling pubmed-31001182011-06-02 Bilateral Ovarian Krukenberg Tumor in a Full-Term Pregnancy Dueñas-García, Omar Felipe Diaz-Sotomayor, Maricela Chanana, Charu ISRN Obstet Gynecol Case Report Objective. Krukenberg tumors in pregnancy are very rare and their management can present a dilemma for the obstetrician gynecologist. Case Report. We present the case of a G3P2002 who presented to us and the 38 weeks gestation with bilateral massive Krukenberg tumors. Despite at surgery and chemotherapy she died 3 months postpartum. Conclusion. Early detection followed by surgery and chemotherapy could possibly result in a favorable outcome with such patients. International Scholarly Research Network 2011 2010-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3100118/ /pubmed/21637363 http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/620380 Text en Copyright © 2011 Omar Felipe Dueñas-García et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Dueñas-García, Omar Felipe
Diaz-Sotomayor, Maricela
Chanana, Charu
Bilateral Ovarian Krukenberg Tumor in a Full-Term Pregnancy
title Bilateral Ovarian Krukenberg Tumor in a Full-Term Pregnancy
title_full Bilateral Ovarian Krukenberg Tumor in a Full-Term Pregnancy
title_fullStr Bilateral Ovarian Krukenberg Tumor in a Full-Term Pregnancy
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral Ovarian Krukenberg Tumor in a Full-Term Pregnancy
title_short Bilateral Ovarian Krukenberg Tumor in a Full-Term Pregnancy
title_sort bilateral ovarian krukenberg tumor in a full-term pregnancy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3100118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21637363
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/620380
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