Ovarian cancer in a woman previously diagnosed with endometriosis and an extremely high serum CA-125 level
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A woman initially diagnosed with endometriosis and an extremely high CA-125 later developed extensive ovarian clear-cell carcinoma with metastases, proving fatal.
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PURPOSE: Follow-up of a woman with a serum CA-125 level > 1000 U/mL where laparoscopy only found endometriosis.
METHODS: Case report-- re-evaluation several years later.
RESULTS: Extensive clear-cell carcinoma of ovary with metastases leading to death.
CONCLUSION: This case suggests that bilateral oophorectomy should be performed in women not desiring any more children if the serum CA- 125 level is very high even if only endometriosis is found initially.
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- Associations between Estrogen Receptor Gene Polymorphisms and Endometriosis 2013
- Identification of anti-syntaxin 5 autoantibody as a novel serum marker of endometriosis 2011
- Endometriosis, in vitro fertilisation and the risk of gynaecological malignancies, including ovarian and breast cancer 2009
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- CA-125 as a biomarker for malignant transformation of endometriosis 2009
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