Karabulut, Yasemin Yuyucu Çankırı State Hospital - Clinic of Pathology, Turkey , Sertçelik, Ayşe Ankara Üniversitesi - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pathology, Turkey

Signet Ring Stromal Tumor of Ovary

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Signet-ring stromal tumor (SRST) is a rare benign ovarian neoplasm with only 10 reported cases in the literature. Wereport a case of signet-ring stromal tumor of the right ovary in a 43- year-old woman who presented with abdominal discomfort. Histologically, the tumor was composed of an admixture of spindle and round cells containing a large cytoplasmic vacuole which displaced the nucleus, creating a signed-ring appearance. Immunohistochemically, the tumor cells showed positivity for wimentin and negativity for PANCK, CK7, CK20.

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Signet , ring ovarian tumor , Krukenberg tumor , vimentin

Gazi Medical Journal

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