A 33.5 cm Mucinous Ovarian Carcinoma and Associated Comorbidities in an 89-Year-Old Female

Ovarian cancer is known to cause the highest mortality of gynecologic cancers. We present the case of an 89-year-old Caucasian female who presented to her surgeon with a large 33.5 cm abdominopelvic mass. Imaging done before surgery and surgical resection found the mass to be a very large ovarian tu...

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Published in:Curēus (Palo Alto, CA) CA), 2024-08, Vol.16 (8), p.e67970
Main Authors: Tariq, Hadia A, Abid, Fahad I, Galloway, Joseph
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abdomen
Cancer therapies
Chemotherapy
Colon
Comorbidity
Gynecological cancer
Hiatal hernias
Hysterectomy
Laparotomy
Medical imaging
Medical prognosis
Metastasis
Oncology
Oophorectomy
Ovarian cancer
Pathology
Patients
Pelvis
Surgery
Tomography
Tumors
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Summary:Ovarian cancer is known to cause the highest mortality of gynecologic cancers. We present the case of an 89-year-old Caucasian female who presented to her surgeon with a large 33.5 cm abdominopelvic mass. Imaging done before surgery and surgical resection found the mass to be a very large ovarian tumor, and subsequent histopathology found the tumor to be a moderately differentiated mucinous ovarian carcinoma (MOC) that weighed 8.16 kg with dimensions of 33.5 × 32.1 × 16.5 cm. Histological staining revealed the tumor cells to be nonspecific overall but in favor of a primarily ovarian source. While primary MOCs tend to be relatively larger when compared to other ovarian tumors (>10 cm), there have been few documented cases of ovarian tumors, specifically primary MOCs, presenting at this large of a size.
ISSN:2168-8184
2168-8184
DOI:10.7759/cureus.67970