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Case Reports
. 2016 Aug 22:18:1-3.
doi: 10.1016/j.gore.2016.08.003. eCollection 2016 Nov.

Malignant struma ovarii with insular carcinoma: A case report and literature review

Heather Williams  1 , Erin Salinas  1 , Erica Savage  2 , Megan Samuelson  2 , Michael J Goodheart  1
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Case Reports

Malignant struma ovarii with insular carcinoma: A case report and literature review

Heather Williams et al. Gynecol Oncol Rep. .

Abstract

Image 1 CT image demonstrating the large pelvic mass. Note the sigmoid colon sandwiched between the sacrum and the pelvic mass.Image 1.

Keywords: Insular carcinoma; Iodine ablation therapy; Papillary thyroid carcinoma; Pelvic mass; Struma ovarii; Thyroidectomy.

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Fig. 1
Photomicrograph of primary insular carcinoma with associated papillary carcinoma (red circle), 200 × magnification.
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Photomicrograph of struma ovarii component of mature cystic teratoma, 40 × magnification.
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Fig. 3
Photomicrograph of A) primary insular carcinoma with papillary carcinoma as in Fig. 1 stained for H & E, B) Thyroid Transcription Factor 1 (TTF-1) positive nuclear staining in both the insular carcinoma and papillary thyroid carcinoma, C) Negative staining for Chromogranin and D) Synaptophysin, 100 × magnification.
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