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An unusual case of uterine tube cancer (transitional cell carcinoma) co-existing with appendicitis: a case report.

Surmacki P, Sporny S, Tosiak A, Lasota J

Department of Histology and Embriology, University of Medicine of Łódź, 90-136, Narutowicza 60, Łódź, Poland, jachtventus@pro.onet.pl.

The authors present an exceptional case of a transitional cell carcinoma of the uterine tube in a 59-year-old female patient, co-existing with appendicitis. Originally, the patient was assigned to surgery due to an inflamed tumour of the right adnexa. A mid-surgery diagnose revealed appendicitis by chance, but in the course of an examination of the right uterine tube, performed on the spot, no progressive carcinoid process was univocally diagnosed. Therefore, the treatments applied were a bilateral salpingectomy and appendectomy. In the course of the final pathomorphological examination, using an immunohistochemical technique, a primary cancer of the uterine tube composed of transitional epithelium cells (transitional cell carcinoma G-2, pT1a) was diagnosed. At the time of the second surgery, a radical hysterectomy, bilateral oophorectomy and omentectomy were performed and afterwards, the patient was treated with a post-operational radiotherapy. The authors support the thesis that a primary cancer of the uterine tube may, as it looks, suggest a different ailment and present diagnostic problems.

Published 5 December 2005 in Arch Gynecol Obstet, 273(3): 182-4.
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