ABSTRACT

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.