A giant ovarian mucinous tumor in a 58-year-old postmenopausal patient with persistent abdominal pain and high serum levels of CA 19-9

Ovarian cancer is the seventh most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in the world and epithelial ovarian cancer is the most predominant pathologic subtype. Tumor markers are widely used in clinical practice to determine therapeutic efficacy, to detect recurrence and to predict prognosis in known...

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Autores principales: Mulita, Francesk, Oikonomou, Nikoleta, Tchabashvili, Levan, Liolis, Elias, Kehagias, Ioannis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33244339
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.37.76.25932
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author Mulita, Francesk
Oikonomou, Nikoleta
Tchabashvili, Levan
Liolis, Elias
Kehagias, Ioannis
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Oikonomou, Nikoleta
Tchabashvili, Levan
Liolis, Elias
Kehagias, Ioannis
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description Ovarian cancer is the seventh most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in the world and epithelial ovarian cancer is the most predominant pathologic subtype. Tumor markers are widely used in clinical practice to determine therapeutic efficacy, to detect recurrence and to predict prognosis in known cancers. CA-19-9 antigen is mainly elevated in cases of gastrointestinal tract malignancy, including of the pancreas, colorectum, and biliary tract. However, CA 19-9 antigen can also be elevated in ovarian mucinous neoplasms. We report herein the case of a 58-year-old woman who presented with an abnormally high level of CA 19-9 antigen associated with ovarian mucinous borderline tumor.
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spelling pubmed-76802272020-11-25 A giant ovarian mucinous tumor in a 58-year-old postmenopausal patient with persistent abdominal pain and high serum levels of CA 19-9 Mulita, Francesk Oikonomou, Nikoleta Tchabashvili, Levan Liolis, Elias Kehagias, Ioannis Pan Afr Med J Case Report Ovarian cancer is the seventh most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in the world and epithelial ovarian cancer is the most predominant pathologic subtype. Tumor markers are widely used in clinical practice to determine therapeutic efficacy, to detect recurrence and to predict prognosis in known cancers. CA-19-9 antigen is mainly elevated in cases of gastrointestinal tract malignancy, including of the pancreas, colorectum, and biliary tract. However, CA 19-9 antigen can also be elevated in ovarian mucinous neoplasms. We report herein the case of a 58-year-old woman who presented with an abnormally high level of CA 19-9 antigen associated with ovarian mucinous borderline tumor. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7680227/ /pubmed/33244339 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.37.76.25932 Text en Copyright: Francesk Mulita et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Mulita, Francesk
Oikonomou, Nikoleta
Tchabashvili, Levan
Liolis, Elias
Kehagias, Ioannis
A giant ovarian mucinous tumor in a 58-year-old postmenopausal patient with persistent abdominal pain and high serum levels of CA 19-9
title A giant ovarian mucinous tumor in a 58-year-old postmenopausal patient with persistent abdominal pain and high serum levels of CA 19-9
title_full A giant ovarian mucinous tumor in a 58-year-old postmenopausal patient with persistent abdominal pain and high serum levels of CA 19-9
title_fullStr A giant ovarian mucinous tumor in a 58-year-old postmenopausal patient with persistent abdominal pain and high serum levels of CA 19-9
title_full_unstemmed A giant ovarian mucinous tumor in a 58-year-old postmenopausal patient with persistent abdominal pain and high serum levels of CA 19-9
title_short A giant ovarian mucinous tumor in a 58-year-old postmenopausal patient with persistent abdominal pain and high serum levels of CA 19-9
title_sort giant ovarian mucinous tumor in a 58-year-old postmenopausal patient with persistent abdominal pain and high serum levels of ca 19-9
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33244339
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.37.76.25932
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