Chen Shih-Lung, Hsieh Tsan-Yu, Yang Shih-Wei
Department of Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou 333, Taiwan.
School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan.
Diagnostics (Basel). 2021 Sep 29;11(10):1804. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics11101804.
Low-grade ovarian serous adenocarcinoma is rarely encountered in the neck region. The diagnosis of this rare malignancy entity in the neck is challenging for both clinicians and pathologists. A 53-year-old female with a chief complaint of a right lower neck mass that had been growing for approximately 2 weeks. The ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration cytology favored malignancy. The positron emission tomography/computed tomography scan revealed the clustered enlarged lymph nodes with increased radioactivity uptake in the right neck level V, and strong radioactivity uptake was also displayed in the right ovarian regions. Pelvis magnetic resonance imaging displayed right adnexal complex mass supporting the ovarian cancer. An en bloc resection of the right neck lymph node was conducted. Ovarian serous adenocarcinoma with metastasis of lymph nodes in the neck was confirmed through histopathological findings. This study reviews the clinical features of low-grade ovarian serous carcinoma metastasizing to lymph nodes in neck. Although very rare, ovarian cancer with neck metastasis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a neck mass lesion. The clinical staging would be relatively high due to the quiet entity of the cancer.
低度恶性卵巢浆液性腺癌在颈部区域极为罕见。对于临床医生和病理学家而言,诊断颈部这一罕见的恶性肿瘤颇具挑战性。一名53岁女性,主要症状为右颈部下侧肿物,已持续生长约2周。超声引导下细针穿刺细胞学检查结果倾向于恶性。正电子发射断层扫描/计算机断层扫描显示,右侧颈部V区有成群肿大的淋巴结,放射性摄取增加,右侧卵巢区域也显示出强烈的放射性摄取。盆腔磁共振成像显示右侧附件区有复杂肿物,支持卵巢癌的诊断。遂对右侧颈部淋巴结进行了整块切除。通过组织病理学检查确诊为伴有颈部淋巴结转移的卵巢浆液性腺癌。本研究回顾了低度恶性卵巢浆液性癌转移至颈部淋巴结的临床特征。尽管极为罕见,但在颈部肿物病变的鉴别诊断中应考虑到卵巢癌伴颈部转移的情况。由于该癌症表现隐匿,临床分期可能相对较高。