Ectopic ovarian mixed epithelial tumor simulating colon cancer in a woman with a unicornuate uterus.
- Author:
Ju Young LEE
1
;
Sung Woo YOON
;
Shin Eui YOON
;
Kyung Ho HA
;
Jean Kyung PARK
;
Jin Young PARK
;
Hyun Sik JEONG
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Good Samaritan Hospital, Pohang, Korea. mizigun@hanmail.net
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Mullerian ducts;
Ovary;
Mixed tumor;
Colon cancer
- MeSH:
Colon;
Colonic Neoplasms;
Female;
Genitalia;
Humans;
Mullerian Ducts;
Ovary;
Uterus
- From:Korean Journal of Medicine
2009;77(Suppl 1):S192-S196
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Ovarian malignancy can rarely present as a colonic mass and simulate colon cancer. Mullerian anomalies are congenital anatomic abnormalities of the female internal genitalia, of which a unicornuate uterus is a rare subtype. Several cases of gynecologic malignancies arising in Mullerian anomalies have been described. However, an ectopic ovarian malignancy in conjunction with a unicornuate uterus has never been reported. We report a case of ectopic ovarian mixed epithelial tumor, a very rare subtype of ovarian epithelial tumor, which presented as a colonic mass simulating colon cancer in a woman with a unicornuate uterus.
