Involvement of Bone in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Case Report of an Uncommon Late Metastatic Event

Bone involvement is uncommon in epithelial ovarian cancer. In this report, a case of bone metastases from ovarian cancer is described and the potential risk factors for such a rare occurrence are discussed. It is possible that such an event will become more common in the future as patients with adva...

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Autor principal: Markman, Maurie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2011
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Published: October, 2011
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3220903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22412818
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000333067
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description Bone involvement is uncommon in epithelial ovarian cancer. In this report, a case of bone metastases from ovarian cancer is described and the potential risk factors for such a rare occurrence are discussed. It is possible that such an event will become more common in the future as patients with advanced ovarian cancer experience prolonged survival but the cancer is not eliminated.
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spelling pubmed-32209032012-03-12 Involvement of Bone in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Case Report of an Uncommon Late Metastatic Event Markman, Maurie Case Rep Oncol Published: October, 2011 Bone involvement is uncommon in epithelial ovarian cancer. In this report, a case of bone metastases from ovarian cancer is described and the potential risk factors for such a rare occurrence are discussed. It is possible that such an event will become more common in the future as patients with advanced ovarian cancer experience prolonged survival but the cancer is not eliminated. S. Karger AG 2011-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3220903/ /pubmed/22412818 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000333067 Text en Copyright © 2011 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published: October, 2011
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Involvement of Bone in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Case Report of an Uncommon Late Metastatic Event
title Involvement of Bone in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Case Report of an Uncommon Late Metastatic Event
title_full Involvement of Bone in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Case Report of an Uncommon Late Metastatic Event
title_fullStr Involvement of Bone in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Case Report of an Uncommon Late Metastatic Event
title_full_unstemmed Involvement of Bone in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Case Report of an Uncommon Late Metastatic Event
title_short Involvement of Bone in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Case Report of an Uncommon Late Metastatic Event
title_sort involvement of bone in epithelial ovarian cancer: case report of an uncommon late metastatic event
topic Published: October, 2011
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3220903/
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