Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5680702 | Medicina Clínica | 2017 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Mucinous adenocarcinomas with extra-appendiceal spread may present as PMP with mucinous ascites, jelly-nodular carcinomatosis without ascites, nodular or desmoplasic plates carcinomatosis without jelly mass/nodules. Histology is not correlated to clinical picture. Preoperative diagnosis of mucinous ovarian cancer in peritoneal carcinomatosis scenario may increase the doubt of their ovarian origin and force an appendiceal origin to be ruled out.
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Authors
Francisco J. Morera Ocón, Bruno Camps Vilata, Elena Muñoz Forner, Clara Navarro Campoy, Javier Gallego Plazas, Samuel Navarro Fos,