A case of ovarian metastasis of the recurrent uterine cervical cancer after adjuvant radiation therapy.

Lee, Hae Nam; Kwon, Yong Il; Kim, Sue Yeon; Lee, Hee Jeong; Ahn, Woong Shick; Lee, Joon Mo; Namkoong, Sung Eum

Case Report

Korean Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2005;48(7):1799-1804.
Published online July 1, 2005.

A case of ovarian metastasis of the recurrent uterine cervical cancer after adjuvant radiation therapy.

Hae Nam Lee, Yong Il Kwon, Sue Yeon Kim, Hee Jeong Lee, Woong Shick Ahn, Joon Mo Lee, Sung Eum Namkoong

¹Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Catholic University Medical College, Seoul, Korea. haenam_1@hanmail.net
²Department of Pathology, Catholic University Medical College, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

Cervical carcinoma is currently the second most common gynecologic malignancy worldwide with high incidence in developing countries. However, ovarian metastasis in cervical carcinoma is rare. Especially in squamous cell carcinoma of cervical cancer, ovarian metastasis is even more rare. And adenocarcinoma of cervical cancer with gradual increase in incidence, has low ovarian metastasis of 2.0-3.6% in the early stage, although it has high ovarian metastasis in the advanced stage. We experience one case of ovarian metastasis in recurrent cervical adenocarcinoma of stage IB1, and then we report it together with brief review of literatures.

Key Words: Adenocarcinoma, Cervix, Ovary, Metastasis