Coronel-Brizio PG, Andrade PE, Cruz MLV, Jarquin GP

Language: Spanish
References: 7
Page: 45-48
PDF size: 348.45 Kb.

ABSTRACT

Dysgerminoma represents 1 percent of malignant ovarian tumors and 40 percent of cancers germ. This article reports the case of a 48 year old whom that goes to “Centro Estatal de Cancerologia “Miguel Dorantes Mesa” in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz, due to paraneoplastic syndrome and abdominal pain. There have been studies in which extension is detected depending on pelvic tumor at a left ovarian tumor markers are requested and decide surgery on the patient, being a mass of 6 cm, with histopathologic tumor with component germinal dysgerminoma and other components germ (embryonal carcinoma and endodermal sinus tumor) and immunohistochemical study of dysgerminoma ANAPLASTIC with trophoblastic component. Subsequently treated with chemotherapy with a good prediction.

REFERENCES

1. Tozzini IR. Ginecología. 1ª edición. Argentina: CORPU, 2012;303-307.

2. Berek SJ, Hacker FN. Ginecología oncológica. 5ª edición. Philadelphia:Lipincott Williams and Wilkins, 2010;509-534.

3. Nogales F. Los tumores de células germinales del ovario. Avances anatomoclinicos. VI Congreso Virtual de Anatomía patológica 2004. http://conganat.uninet.edu/6CVHAP/conferencias/conf_nogales.html

4. Donovan PJ, de Miguel MP. Turning germ cells into stem cells.CurrOpin Genet Dev. 2003;13:463-71.

5. Nogales FF. Talerman A, Kubik-Huch RA, Devouassoux-Shisheboran M, Tavassoli FA. Ovarian germ cell tumours (2.3). WHO Classification of Tumours (Blue Books). III. Pathology and Genetics of Tumours of the Breast and Female Genital Organs. Edited by F.A. Tavassoli and M.R. Stratton. IARC Lyon 2003.

6. Nogales FF, Merino J, Musto ML, Botticelli L. La patología de los tumores germinales del ovario. Avances anatomoclínicos en los ultimos tres lustros. Revisiones en Cancer (Madrid). 2003;17:175-183.

7. Berek JS. Ginecología. 13 edición.México: Mc Graw Hill, 2010;509-535.