Intestinal lymphangitis carcinomatosa related to ovarian cancer: Case report and review of the literature

Gynecologic Oncology Reports
Ricardo Pedrini CruzReitan Ribeiro

Abstract

We present a 57-year-old woman with ovarian cancer that presented to the Emergency Room with a proximal small bowel obstruction. Exploratory laparotomy evidenced a thickened 10 cm extension of the proximal jejunum without bowel peristalsis, with stenotic enteric lumen, with a lesion apparently originating from its submucosal and muscular layers. The patient underwent an exploratory laparotomy with total hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, omentectomy, small bowel resection and peritoneal biopsies. Final pathology and immunohistochemistry confirmed the intra-operative suspicion of lymphatic intestinal spread of malignant cells originating from a high grade serous carcinoma of ovarian origin. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report in the literature of intestinal carcinomatous lymphangitis related to ovarian cancer, and the first report of involvement of the proximal portion of the jejunum.

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