Pseudo-Meigs' syndrome caused by ovarian metastasis from colon cancer: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 387-391

  Ohsawa, Tomonori ^a   Ishida, Hideyuki ^a   Nakada, Hiroshi ^a   Inokuma, Shigehisa ^a   Hashimoto, Daijyo ^a   Kuroda, Hajime ^a   Itoyama, Shinji ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Ovarian metastasis; Pseudo Meigs' syndrome

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL SWELLING; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; LAPAROTOMY; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVARY METASTASIS; PELVIS TUMOR; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDO MEIG SYNDROME; PSEUDOTUMOR; SYNDROME DELINEATION; THORAX DRAINAGE;

ADULT; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEIGS SYNDROME; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0038027158     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950300088     Document Type: Article

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