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Isolated late recurrence of epithelial ovarian cancer in cervical lymph nodes

  • A. Antar1,*,
  • H. AlJawad2
  • A. AlMuslim3
  • N. El-Majzoub4

1Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Almoosa Specialist Hospital, Al-Ahsa(Saudi Arabia)

2Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Almoosa Specialist Hospital, Al-Ahsa(Saudi Arabia)

3Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Almoosa Specialist Hospital, Al-Ahsa (Saudi Arabia)

4Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut (Lebanon)

DOI: 10.12892/ejgo4775.2019 Vol.40,Issue 6,December 2019 pp.1067-1069

Published: 10 December 2019

*Corresponding Author(s): A. Antar E-mail: a.antar@almoosahospital.com.sa

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Abstract

Ovarian cancer is the most common cause of gynecologic cancer death worldwide. Ninety-five percent of ovarian malignancies derive from epithelial cells. Dissemination of ovarian cancer is usually locoregional and occurs by invasion of adjacent viscera. Recur-rence in the supradiaphragmatic lymph nodes is rare and only reported in a few cases in the literature. The authors describe the finding of a late metastasis in the cervical lymph nodes in a 56-year-old patient with ovarian serous cell carcinoma.

Keywords

Chemotherapy; Computerized tomography; Neck metastasis; Ovarian cancer.

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A. Antar, H. Aljawad, A. Almuslim, N. El-majzoub. Isolated late recurrence of epithelial ovarian cancer in cervical lymph nodes. European Journal of Gynaecological Oncology. 2019; 40(6): 1067-1069. doi: 10.12892/ejgo4775.2019

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https://www.ejgo.net/articles/10.12892/ejgo4775.2019

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