Anaplastic Ovarian Carcinoma Arising From a Background of Mucinous Carcinoma with Fatal Outcome: Case Report and Literature Review

Ji-Young Hong, Sujin Park, Tae-Joong Kim, Sang Yong Song, Jeong-Won Lee, Byoung- Gie Kim, Duk-Soo Bae, Chel Hun Choi and Nam Rri Kim

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, South Korea
Department of Pathology and Translational Genomics, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, South Korea

^*Correspondance to: Chel Hun Choi 

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Abstract:

Ovarian mucinous carcinoma is 2% to 4% of all epithelial ovarian cancers and is known to have good prognosis. It is low stage at diagnosis, but one of the least studied types of ovarian epithelial cancer. Sometimes anaplastic foci are found with ovarian mucinous carcinoma and several types of mural nodules may develop in the wall of mucinous tumors. It is rarely encountered and reported in less than 35 cases with no reports in South Korea. Prognosis of these, if unruptured, is not as poor as initially suggested. We report a case of anaplastic carcinoma arising from mucinous carcinoma with fatal outcome in a 24-year-old female.

Keywords:

Mucinous carcinoma; Anaplastic carcinoma; Poor prognosis

Cite the Article:

Kim NR, Park S, Kim T-J, Song SY, Lee J-W, Kim B-G, et al. Anaplastic Ovarian Carcinoma Arising From a Background of Mucinous Carcinoma with Fatal Outcome: Case Report and Literature Review. Ann Clin Case Rep. 2019; 4: 1626.