Tumor-to-tumor metastasis from appendiceal adenocarcinoma to an ovarian mature teratoma, mimicking malignant transformation of a teratoma: a case report

• Hoofdauteurs: Mitsutake Yano (Auteur), Tomomi Katoh (Auteur), Tetsuya Hamaguchi (Auteur), Eito Kozawa (Auteur), Mei Hamada (Auteur), Koji Nagata (Auteur), Masanori Yasuda (Auteur)
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• Gepubliceerd in: BMC, 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Tumor-to-tumor metastasis (TTM) is a rare but well-documented phenomenon that is defined as metastasis in a histologically distinct tumor. Ovarian mature teratomas (OMTs) can coexist with various cancers by malignant transformation, which may make it difficult to distinguish thes...