Brain Metastasis as an Initial Manifestation of Ovarian Carcinoma: A Case Report

Brain metastasis is a rare and late manifestation of ovarian carcinoma. A 30-year-old woman initially presenting with neurologic symptoms was later found to have mucinous ovarian carcinoma. The patient had a 6 cm adnexal mass with multiple millimetric brain metastatic lesions. Following a surgical s...

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Autores principales: Tuncer, Zafer Selçuk, Boyraz, Gokhan, Yazıcıoğlu, Aslıhan, Selcuk, İlker, Yücel, Senem Özge
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/PMC3539383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23316241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/735026
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author Tuncer, Zafer Selçuk
Boyraz, Gokhan
Yazıcıoğlu, Aslıhan
Selcuk, İlker
Yücel, Senem Özge
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description Brain metastasis is a rare and late manifestation of ovarian carcinoma. A 30-year-old woman initially presenting with neurologic symptoms was later found to have mucinous ovarian carcinoma. The patient had a 6 cm adnexal mass with multiple millimetric brain metastatic lesions. Following a surgical staging laparotomy procedure, the patient received brain irradiation and systemic chemotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-35393832013-01-11 Brain Metastasis as an Initial Manifestation of Ovarian Carcinoma: A Case Report Tuncer, Zafer Selçuk Boyraz, Gokhan Yazıcıoğlu, Aslıhan Selcuk, İlker Yücel, Senem Özge Case Rep Med Case Report Brain metastasis is a rare and late manifestation of ovarian carcinoma. A 30-year-old woman initially presenting with neurologic symptoms was later found to have mucinous ovarian carcinoma. The patient had a 6 cm adnexal mass with multiple millimetric brain metastatic lesions. Following a surgical staging laparotomy procedure, the patient received brain irradiation and systemic chemotherapy. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3539383/ /pubmed/23316241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/735026 Text en Copyright © 2012 Zafer Selçuk Tuncer 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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Brain Metastasis as an Initial Manifestation of Ovarian Carcinoma: A Case Report
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title_short Brain Metastasis as an Initial Manifestation of Ovarian Carcinoma: A Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3539383/
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