PRIMARY-CARCINOMA OF THE FALLOPIAN-TUBE - REPORT OF ONE CASE AND LITERATURE-REVIEW

With an incidence of 0.1-1.0% of all genital malignancies, primary fal lopian tube carcinoma is an extremely uncommon neoplasm of the female genital tract. We report a 58-year-old postmenopausal woman with prima ry fallopian tube carcinoma confined to the right fallopian tube in pr imary stage pT(2a) pN(0) G(3) M-0, who is alive without evidence of di sease 2 years after abdominal hysterectomy, bilateral adnexectomy, ome ntectomy and lymphonodectomy followed by an adjuvant cisplatin (70 mg/ m(2)) and treosulfan (5 g/m(2)) chemotherapy, An accompanying literatu re review indicates that clinical signs and symptoms of fallopian tube neoplasms are usually nonspecific and include lower abdominal pain. T he primary treatment remains surgical resection followed by adjuvant c hemotherapy or radiation. Prognosis is poor, although long-term surviv ors have been reported.