Strumal Carcinoid Focus in Mature Cystic Teratoma in a Patient with Breast Cancer and Desire for Fertility Preservation

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Eduardo Gonzalez Bosquet M. Muniesa A. Hernandez Saborit S. Gonzalez Nuñez M. Suñol

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Eduardo Gonzalez Bosquet
Obstetric and gynecology Department, Sant Joan de Déu Hospital, University of Barcelona, Spain

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Ovarian primary carcinoid tumors are very rare, accounting for 0.5-1.7% of all carcinoid tumors and 3% of ovarian teratomas. This type of tumor frequently arises from a mature cystic teratoma. The primary ovarian carcinoid tumors are divided into 4 major types, based on their histological characteristics: insular, trabecular or mucinous pattern. Strumal carcinoid refers to insular or trabecular pattern associated with struma ovarii. The strumal type is the most common histologic form, accounting for 40% of primary ovarian carcinoid tumors. Approximately 5% of carcinoid tumors of the non-mucinous type can be malignant. However, in the case of ovarian strumal carcinoid, the occurrence of metastasis is unusual. This article is based on a case of a 30-year-old nulliparous woman diagnosed with strumal carcinoid, who presented a right ovarian tumor suggestive of teratoma synchronous to a breast cancer. She was referred to our center for fertility preservation.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Tue 09, Jun 2020
Accepted: Thu 02, Jul 2020
Published: Tue 14, Jul 2020

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© 2023 Eduardo Gonzalez Bosquet. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2020.07.08