High-Grade Serous Tumor Arising from Fallopian Tube in a BRCA Mutation Carrier after Prophylactic Oophorectomy

High-Grade Serous Tumor Arising from Fallopian Tube in a BRCA Mutation Carrier after Prophylactic Oophorectomy

We present the case of a 67-year-old patient with a BRCA1 mutation and breast cancer who underwent prophylactic oophorectomy. After 6 years, an abdominal computed tomography revealed a pelvic mass which proved to be a poorly differentiated serous carcinoma originating from the right residual tube wh...

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Main Authors: Domenica Lorusso, Roberta Di Rocco, Maria Mancini, Francesco Raspagliesi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2013-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Oncology
Subjects:
Ovarian cancer
Fallopian tube
BRCA mutation
Kurman’s hypothesis
Online Access:http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/346339

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