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Metachronous ovarian endometrioid carcinomas in a patient with a PTEN variant: case report of incidentally detected Cowden syndrome.

Hiroyuki MatsubayashiSatomi HigashigawaYoshimi KiyozumiYasue HoriuchiYasuyuki HirashimaNobuhiro KadoMasato AbeTakuma OhishiSumiko OhnamiKenichi UrakamiKen Yamaguchi
Published in: BMC cancer (2019)
Ovarian endometrioid carcinoma is generally thought to develop from endometrial tissue menstruated from the uterus and implanted on the ovary. To date, ovarian cancers have not been listed as CS-related cancers; however, ovarian endometrioid cancer can have a potential association with CS in endometriosis cases.
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