LATE RECURRENT OVARIAN CARCINOMA METASTATIC TO THE THORACIC WALL
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Late recurrent ovarian carcinoma metastatic to the thoracic wall.
Ovarian cancer is the second most common gynaecologic malignancy. Ovarian carcinomas typically metastasize to multiple sites via exfoliation, lymphatic spread or direct invasion. We present a rare case of a very late recurrence of ovarian carcinoma into the thoracic wall, heralded by thoracic pain in a patient otherwise disease-free for 23 years. This unusual and late presentation of an ovarian...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Clinica Belgica
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1784-3286,2295-3337
DOI: 10.1179/acb.2010.076