ADENOCARCINOMA OF THE BREAST METASTATIC TO BENIGN OVARIAN FIBROMA

Citation
Lj. Perry et al., ADENOCARCINOMA OF THE BREAST METASTATIC TO BENIGN OVARIAN FIBROMA, Gynecologic oncology, 62(3), 1996, pp. 408-410
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Oncology,"Obsetric & Gynecology
Journal title
ISSN journal
00908258
Volume
62
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
408 - 410
Database
ISI
SICI code
0090-8258(1996)62:3<408:AOTBMT>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
An elderly woman presenting with a perforated benign gastric peptic ul cer was found to have widespread dissemination of breast carcinoma. Se veral small discrete metastases were present within a large benign ova rian fibroma. The rare phenomenon of tumor-to-tumor metastasis is disc ussed in the context of ovarian pathology. (C) 1996 Academic Press, In c.