Chemotherapy for ovarian mucinous cystadenocarcinoma during pregnancy: A case report

There is limited experience in the treatment of epithelial ovarian malignancy with chemotherapy during pregnancy. We present the case of a 36-year-old women with ovarian mucinous cystadenocarcinoma during pregnancy, on whom exploratory laparotomy was performed at the gestational age of 16 weeks. Afterwards chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide (500 mg/m2) and cisplatin (50 mg/m2) was administered beginning at the second trimester of pregnancy due to surgical Stage Ic. Although preterm labor and a prematurely ruptured membrane occurred at the gestational age of 29 weeks before the fourth course of chemotherapy, there was still a satisfactory outcome for mother and fetus after an emergency cesarean section due to breech presentation at the gestational age of 30 weeks.

Ovarian malignancy; Chemotherapy; Pregnancy

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