Adenocarcinoma of the breast metastatic to benign ovarian fibroma.
An elderly woman presenting with a perforated benign gastric peptic ulcer was found to have widespread dissemination of breast carcinoma. Several small discrete metastases were present within a large benign ovarian fibroma. The rare phenomenon of tumor-to-tumor metastasis is discussed in the context of ovarian pathology.
Perry
L J
LJ
Department of Histopathology/Cytopathology, Norfolk & Norwich Health Care NHS Trust, United Kingdom.
Lewis
J C
JC
Ball
R Y
RY
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary*; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D010053:Ovary / Q000473:pathology