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• In people who have had nongynecologic malignancy, approximately 20 % of adnexal masses are malignant, and 60 % of these are Krukenberg tumors.
• Immunohistochemistry may help in diagnosing Krukenberg tumors from primary ovarian neoplasms For example, tumors that are immunoreactive to cytokeratin 7 ( CK7 ) may be more likely to be of colorectal origin.
• At Marburg he also studied under pathologist Felix Jacob Marchand ( 1846-1928 ), in whose department he described a fibrosarcoma of the ovary that was to become known as a Krukenberg tumor.
• Krukenberg tumors account for about 15 % of metastatic cancers that initially appear to have arisen in the ovary, and as such is less common than metastasis arising from ovarian epithelial and germ-cell tumors.
• Microscopically, Krukenberg tumors are often characterized by mucin-secreting signet-ring cells in the tissue of the ovary; Krukenberg tumors are most commonly metastases from gastric cancer, particularly adenocarcinoma, or breast cancer particularly invasive lobular breast carcinoma, but they can arise in the appendix, colon, small intestine, rectum, gallbladder, and urinary bladder or gallbladder, biliary tract, pancreas, ampulla of Vater or uterine cervix.
• Microscopically, Krukenberg tumors are often characterized by mucin-secreting signet-ring cells in the tissue of the ovary; Krukenberg tumors are most commonly metastases from gastric cancer, particularly adenocarcinoma, or breast cancer particularly invasive lobular breast carcinoma, but they can arise in the appendix, colon, small intestine, rectum, gallbladder, and urinary bladder or gallbladder, biliary tract, pancreas, ampulla of Vater or uterine cervix.