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Rev. chil. endocrinol. diabetes
; 6(3): 95-98, jul. 2013. ilus
Artigo
em Espanhol
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RESUMO
Struma ovarii is an ovarian teratoma composed mainly of thyroid tissue, which can occasionally develop a malignant thyroid tumor. We report a 61 years old female consulting for a metrorrhagia in whom an ovarian cyst was discovered. The patient was subjected to a hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy. The pathological study of the surgical piece revealed a focus of papillary thyroid carcinoma, follicular variety in a right struma ovarii. Three months after surgery, an abdominal CAT scan did not show any abnormality.