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Life-threatening tracheal metastasis complicating ovarian cancer--a case report
E Petru1, G Friedrich, H Pickel
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Graz, Graz, A-8036, Austria.
Gynecologic Oncology
|July 1, 1999
Abstract
Background:
Tracheal metastasis is a rare manifestation of recurrent ovarian cancer.
Case:
We describe tracheal metastasis causing increasing respiratory distress in a patient with progressive stage IIIc undifferentiated serous-papillary cancer involving the peritoneum and pleura and the retroperitoneal, diaphragmatic, parahilar, mediastinal, pretracheal, paratracheal, and supraclavicular lymph nodes. The situation necessitated rapid endoscopic laser ablation.
Conclusion:
Malignant tracheal obstruction should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients with advanced ovarian cancer and respiratory distress.