Bilateral ovarian teratoma complicated with carcinosarcoma in a 68 year old woman: a case report

BMC Cancer. 2011 Jun 3:11:218. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-11-218.

Abstract

Background: Composing of less than 1% of all ovarian cancers, immature teratoma is a malignancy that mainly affects the young, and they present with advanced disease. The treatment of immature teratoma is conservative primary surgery usually involving unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy followed by combination chemotherapy.

Case presentation: Here we present a case of a 68 year old woman with bilateral ovarian teratoma complicated with carcinosarcoma. The patient was diagnosed as FIGO stage IIIC. She underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy and interval cytoreduction followed by optimal cytoreduction. The post operative management strategies and gynaecological follow up studies revealed no evidence of regional or distant metastasis.

Conclusion: Thus the choice of initial treatment should be decided in a selective fashion depending on various prognostic factors in order to increase the survival of the patients.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Carboplatin / administration & dosage
  • Carcinosarcoma / diagnosis*
  • Carcinosarcoma / drug therapy
  • Carcinosarcoma / pathology
  • Carcinosarcoma / surgery
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hysterectomy
  • Neoadjuvant Therapy
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / diagnosis*
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / drug therapy
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / pathology
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / surgery
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / pathology
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / surgery
  • Paclitaxel / administration & dosage
  • Teratoma / diagnosis*
  • Teratoma / drug therapy
  • Teratoma / pathology
  • Teratoma / surgery

Substances

  • Carboplatin
  • Paclitaxel