title: [Clinical analysis of 55 ovarian metastatic tumors from digestive system].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Ovarian metastasis of digestive system tumors is a special way of tumor metastasis, which the diagnosis and treatment are difficult. The objective of this paper is to seek the clinical characteristics of ovarian metastatic tumors from digestive system, to aid correct diagnosis and treatment, so that to improve their curative effect.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors collected the information of 55 patients with ovarian metastatic tumors from digestive system, and analyzed 12 items of the patients including their age, menorrhea and child-bearing, details of original tumors and metastatic tumors, pathologic types, ascites, clinical symptoms, tumor markers, time of metastasis, diagnosis, treatment, curative effect, etc.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Misdiagnosis rate of the team was 30.9%. Survival rate of 1 year, 3 years, and 5 years were 22.4%, 4.1%, and 2.0% in 49 patients, followed up respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ovarian metastatic tumors from digestive system are easy to be misdiagnosed, and have poor prognosis. Careful long-term follow-up and active operation and chemotherapy may be effective to improve their curative effect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Abdomen, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510060, P. R. China. daughsea@21cn.com
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: You-qing
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Zhan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004067:Digestive System Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000556:secondary*