Brain metastasis in advanced serous borderline tumor of the ovary: A case presentation

Madhuri Martin; Rachel N Grisham; Gulisa Turashvili; Darragh F Halpenny; Carol A Aghajanian; Vicky Makker

doi:10.1016/j.gore.2017.09.001

Brain metastasis in advanced serous borderline tumor of the ovary: A case presentation

Gynecol Oncol Rep. 2017 Sep 6:22:9-12. doi: 10.1016/j.gore.2017.09.001. eCollection 2017 Nov.

Authors

Madhuri Martin¹, Rachel N Grisham^{1

2}, Gulisa Turashvili³, Darragh F Halpenny⁴, Carol A Aghajanian^{1

2}, Vicky Makker^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Gynecologic Medical Oncology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.
³ Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.

Abstract

•Brain metastasis is an extremely rare secondary site of ovarian cancer metastasis.•Serous borderline tumor with brain metastasis has not been previously reported.•This is a rare case of brain metastasis in a patient with advanced serous borderline tumor.

Keywords: Brain metastasis; Ovarian cancer; Serous borderline tumor; Serous borderline tumor of the ovary.

Publication types

Case Reports

Grants and funding

P30 CA008748/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States