Small cell ovarian carcinoma of the pulmonary type is a rare and highly aggressive tumor for which a suitable treatment strategy\nhas not been established. A 45-year-old woman presented with abdominal swelling, and primary ovarian carcinoma was suspected.\nThe postoperative pathological diagnosis was small cell ovarian carcinoma of the pulmonary type. She also had complicated grade\n1 endometrioid carcinoma of the uterine corpus. Three courses of cisplatin and etoposide therapy were administered as adjuvant\nchemotherapy. Because the tumor was chemotherapy resistant, she underwent palliative abdominal irradiation at a dose of 26Gy in\n13 fractions,which induced cytoreduction and provided symptomatic relief. She died 4months after surgery. Lactate dehydrogenase\nwas a useful tumormarker during treatment. Here, we present an extremely rare case of a patient with small cell ovarian carcinoma\nof the pulmonary type treated with radiotherapy after surgery and chemotherapy.
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