Ovarian Small Cell Carcinoma: A Rare Case Report and Review of Literature

Ovarian small cell carcinoma is a rare and highly malignant tumor with poor prognosis. It usually presents in younger females with features of hypercalcemia. The exact histogenesis of the tumor is unclear and it may present as an undifferentiated tumor. In such cases, immunohistochemistry (IHC) play...

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Autores principales: Agarwal, Savita, Pandey, Pinki, Ralli, Megha, Singh, Shruti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iranian Society of Pathology 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5929396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29731803
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author Agarwal, Savita
Pandey, Pinki
Ralli, Megha
Singh, Shruti
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description Ovarian small cell carcinoma is a rare and highly malignant tumor with poor prognosis. It usually presents in younger females with features of hypercalcemia. The exact histogenesis of the tumor is unclear and it may present as an undifferentiated tumor. In such cases, immunohistochemistry (IHC) plays an important role to confirm the diagnosis. Limited treatment options are available and mainly include radical surgery followed by adjuvant therapy in advanced stages. The current report was a rare case of small cell carcinoma of ovary presenting no symptoms of hypercalcemia diagnosed on histopathological examination and IHC findings.
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spelling pubmed-59293962018-05-04 Ovarian Small Cell Carcinoma: A Rare Case Report and Review of Literature Agarwal, Savita Pandey, Pinki Ralli, Megha Singh, Shruti Iran J Pathol Case Report Ovarian small cell carcinoma is a rare and highly malignant tumor with poor prognosis. It usually presents in younger females with features of hypercalcemia. The exact histogenesis of the tumor is unclear and it may present as an undifferentiated tumor. In such cases, immunohistochemistry (IHC) plays an important role to confirm the diagnosis. Limited treatment options are available and mainly include radical surgery followed by adjuvant therapy in advanced stages. The current report was a rare case of small cell carcinoma of ovary presenting no symptoms of hypercalcemia diagnosed on histopathological examination and IHC findings. Iranian Society of Pathology 2018 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5929396/ /pubmed/29731803 Text en © 2017, IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-noncommercial 4.0 International License, (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Ovarian Small Cell Carcinoma: A Rare Case Report and Review of Literature
title_sort ovarian small cell carcinoma: a rare case report and review of literature
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