Tumor-to-tumor metastasis from appendiceal adenocarcinoma to an ovarian mature teratoma, mimicking malignant transformation of a teratoma: a case report

BACKGROUND: Tumor-to-tumor metastasis (TTM) is a rare but well-documented phenomenon that is defined as metastasis in a histologically distinct tumor. Ovarian mature teratomas (OMTs) can coexist with various cancers by malignant transformation, which may make it difficult to distinguish these from T...

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Autores principales: Yano, Mitsutake, Katoh, Tomomi, Hamaguchi, Tetsuya, Kozawa, Eito, Hamada, Mei, Nagata, Koji, Yasuda, Masanori
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6692929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31409389
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13000-019-0865-6

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