ABSTRACT

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.

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.

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