Lupine Publishers | Ovarian Mucinous Borderline Tumor with Malignant Muralnodules: A Report of Two Cases
Lupine Publishers | Interventions in Gynecology and Women's Healthcare Keywords: Mucinous ovarian tumor; Mural nodule; Anaplastic carcinoma; Angiosarcoma; Poorly differentiated carcinoma; Poor prognosis Introduction Mucinous tumors of the ovary account for about 15% of all ovarian tumors; 80% are benign, while only 3-4% are invasive carcinoma; the remainder are borderline tumors [1]. Rarely, mucinous tumors may exhibit mural nodules containing a carcinomatous or sarcomatous component; these mural nodules are more commonly associated with mucinous borderline tumors but can also arise within mucinous carcinoma [1, 2]. Prat and Scully first described mucinous ovarian tumors with mural nodules in a series of 7 cases in 1979; these lesions were termed mucinous tumors with sarcoma-like nodules [3,4]. However, classification of mural nodules arising in mucinous ovarian tumors remains unclear, and several authors have proposed different classification systems [5-14]. Anaplastic ca...