ABSTRACT
Carcinoma de colo uterino é neoplasia comum, porém a ocorrência de metástase cutânea em câncer do colo uterino é rara, variando de 0,1 a 2,0 por cento. Os sítios primários comuns em pacientes com metástase cutânea säo mama, pulmäo, intestino grosso e ovário. O intervalo entre o diagnóstico do câncer cervical e as lesöes metastáticas varia indo desde a apresentaçäo simultânea com a lesäo inicial até 5 anos após o tratamento apresentando-se como nódulos em 86,7 por cento das vezes. Representa manifestaçäo de doença avançada e de mau prognostico. Apresentamos um caso de metástase cutânea de câncer de colo uterino em couro cabeludo. A paciente, 43 anos, tinha diagnóstico de carcinoma epidermóide indiferenciado do colo uterino. Evoluiu, seis meses após a cirurgia radical, com recidiva vaginal, sendo tratada com radioterapia pélvica. Quatro meses depois apresentou três nódulos metastáticos indolores em couro cabeludo. A paciente submeteu-se à quimioterapia com regressäo completa das lesöes do couro cabeludo
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Humans , Female , Adult , Carcinoma, Squamous Cell , Neoplasm Metastasis/diagnosis , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms , Neoplasm Metastasis/therapyABSTRACT
CONTEXT: Meigs' syndrome consists of a benign ovarian tumor accompanied by ascites and hydrothorax. Elevated serum CA 125 levels in postmenopausal women with solid adnexal masses, ascites and pleural effusion are highly suggestive for malignant ovarian tumor. However, patients with Meigs' syndrome can also have elevated serum CA 125 levels. The authors report a case of Meigs' syndrome with elevated CA 125 level. OBJECTIVE: This is a case report of Meigs' syndrome with elevated CA 125 level. CASE REPORT: A 65-year-old Brazilian woman had presented progressive dyspnea, weight loss and decline in general condition over the 7 months preceding admission to our service. In another hospital, the patient had been submitted to thoracic drainage due to pleural effusion. With recurrence of the pleural effusion and increase in abdominal volume due to ascites and a pelvic mass, the patient sought our service. Transvaginal ultrasound showed an extensive adnexal solid mass of 16.4 x 10.8 cm located in the pelvis without exact limits, and the serum CA 125 level was elevated. With a preoperative diagnosis of ovarian carcinoma, the patient was submitted to exploratory laparotomy, which revealed a left ovarian tumor. The frozen section diagnosis was thecoma. Total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy was performed. The histology of the specimen confirmed the diagnosis of thecoma. The patient was asymptomatic with a normal serum CA 125 level 20 months after the operation