Female genital tract polyneoplasia: primary multiple neoplasms or metastases?

Paianidi, I.G.; Sel'chuk, V.Iu.; Zhordania, K.I.; Anurova, O.A.; Chemeris, G.Iu.; Zakharova, T.I.; Savelov, N.A.; Moroz, E.A.

Arkhiv Patologii 68(4): 16-20

2006


ISSN/ISBN: 0004-1955
PMID: 16986489
Document Number: 604741
The analysis of 49 cases of synchronous and metachronous malignant mucinous tumors of the colon (rectum) and ovaries in the patients treated in 1990 to 2004 again has confirmed the data that metastatic ovarian cancer occurs from a primary focus in the colorectal region. Immunohistochemical studies (using cytokeratin 7 and cytokeratin 20) may be used in the differential diagnosis of ovarian mucinous ovarian carcinoma from metastatic colonic mucinous tumors.

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