Case Report

Metastatıc Ovarıan Tumors Focusıng Prımarıly on Gallbladder: Presentatıon of Three Cases

10.1501/Tipfak_0000000811

  • Aysun Tekeli
  • Nurettin Boran
  • Zeliha Cüylan
  • Taner Turan
  • Hakan Gökçin
  • Deniz Çavușoğlu
  • Gökhan Tulunay
  • Mehmet Faruk Köse

Received Date: 16.04.2011 Accepted Date: 03.01.2012 J Ankara Univ Fac Med 2012;65(1):71-74

Objective:

Metastatic ovarian tumors from primarily from gallbladder and its ducts are consider-ably rare. In this study, three cases of gallbladder cancer that are metastasis to ovary are presented.

Case:

The cases were 67, 70 and 71 years old, at the time have metastases of diagnosis. For two of them, diagnosis can be made with intraoperative frozen/section, despite the fact that they have been examined with computed tomography and gastrointestinal system endoscopy in the preo-perative stage. Two cases had bilateral ovarian pathology. CA 125 levels were over normal values for two patients. One of the patients had extensive intraabdominal involvement and the patholo-gy in the gallbladder has been detected at the preoperative stage for this patient. In this case in which ascites was present, CA 125 level was 489.82 IU/ml.

Conclusion:

Clinical and laboratory findings of metastatic ovarian tumors at the preoperative and intraoperative stages may not be sufficient for differential diagnosis. Frozen/section is determinis-tic in differentiation.

Keywords: Ovarian tumor, Gallbladder cancer, Metastasis