High-grade serous tumor arising from fallopian tube in a BRCA mutation carrier after prophylactic oophorectomy

Case Reports in Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-24

  Lorusso, Domenica ^a   Di Rocco, Roberta ^a   Mancini, Maria ^a   Raspagliesi, Francesco ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

BRCA mutation; Fallopian tube; Kurman's hypothesis; Ovarian cancer

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; CA 125 ANTIGEN; CARBOPLATIN; PACLITAXEL;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIMBRIA; GENE MUTATION; HEMICOLECTOMY; HIGH GRADE SEROUS TUMOR; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CANCER; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE TUBE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; COLONOSCOPY; GASTROSCOPY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; PELVIS TUMOR; PERITONEUM ADHESION; PROPHYLACTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE; TRANSVERSE COLON; UTERINE TUBE TUMOR;

EID: 84877948362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16626575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000346339     Document Type: Article

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