Mediastinal metastasis from ovarian serous carcinoma 29 years after initial treatment

Ovarian cancer is a critically lethal gynecologic malignancy. More than 80% of patients with ovarian cancer have relapses within 5 years after initial treatment. However, recurrence from ovarian cancer more than 20 years later is extremely rare. We report a case of a 67-year-old female with mediasti...

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Autores principales: Inoue, Eri, Yotsumoto, Takuma, Inoue, Yuta, Fukami, Takeshi, Kitani, Masashi, Hirano, Yuta, Nagase, Maki, Morio, Yoshiteru
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7118409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32257787
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101003
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Sumario:Ovarian cancer is a critically lethal gynecologic malignancy. More than 80% of patients with ovarian cancer have relapses within 5 years after initial treatment. However, recurrence from ovarian cancer more than 20 years later is extremely rare. We report a case of a 67-year-old female with mediastinal metastasis from ovarian cancer 29 years after initial gynecologic surgery and chemotherapy.

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