Pathways of Metastases from Primary Organs to the Ovaries

• Main Authors: Yukio Yamanishi (Author), Masafumi Koshiyama (Author), Megumi Ohnaka (Author), Masashi Ueda (Author), Shingo Ukita (Author), Kenji Hishikawa (Author), Michikazu Nagura (Author), Tomoko Kim (Author), Masaya Hirose (Author), Hiroshi Ozasa (Author), Tomoyuki Shirase (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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To investigate the metastatic pathways from the primary organs to the ovaries, we examined the microscopic findings from 18 original and 18 metastatic ovarian tumors carefully. In addition, we examined the immunohistochemical findings (Victoria blue stain for vascular invasion and D2-40 expression f...