title: Utility of ovarian biopsy in pancreatic metastasis of high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma: A case report.
abstract: It is very rare that ovarian carcinoma metastasizes to the pancreas, and pathological diagnosis is required to confirm the primary site. The present study reported a 73-year-old woman with serous carcinoma of the ovary that metastasized to the tail of the pancreas. Metastasis was confirmed by pathological and immunohistochemical examination of a biopsy of the ovarian tumor, an endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the pancreatic tumor and computerized tomography-guided paraaortic lymph node biopsy. A biopsy of the ovarian tumor is useful to make a precise diagnosis and to determine proper treatment when ovarian and pancreatic tumors are identified at the same time and the primary neoplasm is uncertain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane 6938501, Japan.
authors.forename: Kohei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane 6938501, Japan.
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakayama
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane 6938501, Japan.
authors.forename: Masako
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
authors.affiliation: Department of Organ Pathology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane 6938501, Japan.
authors.forename: Noriyoshi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
authors.affiliation: Department of Organ Pathology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane 6938501, Japan.
authors.forename: Mamiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nagase
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane 6938501, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Katagiri
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane 6938501, Japan.
authors.forename: Tomoka
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ishibashi
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane 6938501, Japan.
authors.forename: Emi
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane 6938501, Japan.
authors.forename: Kohji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iida
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane 6938501, Japan.
authors.forename: Razia
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sultana
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane 6938501, Japan.
authors.forename: Satoru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kyo
keywords: biopsy; metastatic pancreatic tumor; ovarian carcinoma