Two Cases of Primary Ovarian Transitional Cell Carcinoma.

Cho, Young Ri; Lee, Chang Jae; Kim, So Hee; Kim, Jin Hee; Song, Jun Baek; Kim, Dong Ja

Case Report

Korean Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2004;47(12):2515-2520.
Published online December 1, 2004.

Two Cases of Primary Ovarian Transitional Cell Carcinoma.

Young Ri Cho, Chang Jae Lee, So Hee Kim, Jin Hee Kim, Jun Baek Song, Dong Ja Kim

¹Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Daegu Fatima Hospital, Daegu, Korea.
²Department of Pathology, Daegu Fatima Hospital, Daegu, Korea.

Abstract

Primary ovarian transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) is extremely rare tumor and recently it has been recognized as one of histologic subtype of ovarian epithelial carcinomas. Primary ovarian TCC has been classified as a different subtype from malignant Brenner tumor for it's histologic and clinical characteristics. Several recent studies repoert immunohistochemical stains are helpful to differentiate this tumor from TCC of bladder. Primary ovarian TCC usually presents at an advanced stage and behaves aggressively however, these tumors appear to be more sensitive to chemotherapy than other ovarian carcinomas and may have a better prognosis. We experienced two cases where operation and chemotherapy have made for primary ovarian TCC patients and report our own case studies with a brief literature review.

Key Words: Transitional cell carcinoma, Immunohistochemically, Chemotherapy