title: Case of a giant mucinous ovarian carcinoma with bone metastasis.
abstract: We report the case of a 51-year-old Japanese woman with a giant (50.75-kg) ovarian tumor. The histopathologic diagnosis was mucinous cystadenocarcinoma. After surgery, the patient was intubated and connected to a respirator for 8 days. Thereafter, she was diagnosed with bone metastasis to the hip bone and the femur.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Saitama Red Cross Hospital, Saitama, Japan. manabun@f8.dion.ne.jp
authors.forename: Manabu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Maki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saitoh
authors.forename: Sumitaka
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kubo
authors.forename: Hatsuo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tomita
authors.forename: Akihiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Andoh
mesh_terms: D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D018282:Cystadenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*