Benign Mucinous Tumor of Ovary with a Sarcoma-Like Mural Nodule: A Case Report

Sarcoma-like mural nodules occur predominantly in middle-aged women. Distinction of these lesions from true sarcomatous nodules and foci of anaplastic carcinoma is important because of the worse prognosis of these tumors in comparison with the favorable behavior of sarcoma-like mural nodules. In thi...

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Autores principales: Garikaparthi, Sailabala, Inuganti Venkata, Renuka, Yarlagadda, Krishna Bharathi, Parvatala, Annapurna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3469083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23082260
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/213765
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Sumario:Sarcoma-like mural nodules occur predominantly in middle-aged women. Distinction of these lesions from true sarcomatous nodules and foci of anaplastic carcinoma is important because of the worse prognosis of these tumors in comparison with the favorable behavior of sarcoma-like mural nodules. In this report we describe the case of a 35-year-old woman with a mucinous ovarian tumor having a mural nodule in the wall.

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