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Calcified Sister Mary Joseph nodule as the presenting complaint of advanced low-grade serous ovarian cancer

A healthy 38-year-old woman presented with a hard umbilical mass that has been growing for a few months in duration with no other significant symptoms and signs. Computed tomography images identified a lobulated densely calcified umbilical mass, left ovarian cysts, a subcentimeter calcified omental...

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Autores principales: Yang, Luhe, Kinloch, Marilyn, Martin, Vickie, Rashidi, Farid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32695248
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.06.033
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author Yang, Luhe
Kinloch, Marilyn
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Rashidi, Farid
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description A healthy 38-year-old woman presented with a hard umbilical mass that has been growing for a few months in duration with no other significant symptoms and signs. Computed tomography images identified a lobulated densely calcified umbilical mass, left ovarian cysts, a subcentimeter calcified omental nodule, and nonspecific punctate pelvic calcifications. Histopathology of the mass revealed low-grade serous carcinoma with postsurgical diagnosis of International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage IV ovarian cancer. This case presentation emphasizes the importance of increased awareness of interpreting radiologists of a seemingly benign appearing imaging finding such as umbilical calcification on CT as a sign of intra-abdominal/pelvic malignancies.
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spelling pubmed-73641212020-07-20 Calcified Sister Mary Joseph nodule as the presenting complaint of advanced low-grade serous ovarian cancer Yang, Luhe Kinloch, Marilyn Martin, Vickie Rashidi, Farid Radiol Case Rep Diagnostic Imaging A healthy 38-year-old woman presented with a hard umbilical mass that has been growing for a few months in duration with no other significant symptoms and signs. Computed tomography images identified a lobulated densely calcified umbilical mass, left ovarian cysts, a subcentimeter calcified omental nodule, and nonspecific punctate pelvic calcifications. Histopathology of the mass revealed low-grade serous carcinoma with postsurgical diagnosis of International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage IV ovarian cancer. This case presentation emphasizes the importance of increased awareness of interpreting radiologists of a seemingly benign appearing imaging finding such as umbilical calcification on CT as a sign of intra-abdominal/pelvic malignancies. Elsevier 2020-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7364121/ /pubmed/32695248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.06.033 Text en Crown Copyright © 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Calcified Sister Mary Joseph nodule as the presenting complaint of advanced low-grade serous ovarian cancer
title_full Calcified Sister Mary Joseph nodule as the presenting complaint of advanced low-grade serous ovarian cancer
title_fullStr Calcified Sister Mary Joseph nodule as the presenting complaint of advanced low-grade serous ovarian cancer
title_full_unstemmed Calcified Sister Mary Joseph nodule as the presenting complaint of advanced low-grade serous ovarian cancer
title_short Calcified Sister Mary Joseph nodule as the presenting complaint of advanced low-grade serous ovarian cancer
title_sort calcified sister mary joseph nodule as the presenting complaint of advanced low-grade serous ovarian cancer
topic Diagnostic Imaging
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32695248
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.06.033
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