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Brain metastasis of ovarian cancer after negative second-look laparotomy
S E Akhan1, M Işikoglu, Y Salihoglu
1University of Istanbul, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Gynecology and Obstetrics Department, Turkey.
European Journal of Gynaecological Oncology
|September 7, 2002
Abstract:
We present a case of ovarian carcinoma that had brain metastasis seven months after having a negative second-look laparotomy and 13 months after the onset of diagnosis. Despite intense multidisciplinary treatment with surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, the patient died seven months after second-look laparotomy.