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| Keywords: Krukenberg Tumor.jpg This middle-aged woman presented with an acute abdomen Exploratory laparotomy showed a very large perforated gastric ulcer in an otherwise thickened tumefactive stomach The ovaries showed enlargement and replacement by tumor This ovary weighed 283 grams and measured 9 5 x 8 0 x 6 0 cm The Krukenberg tumor is classically a metastatic signet ring cell adenocarcinoma arising in the stomach and metastasizing to the ovaries Other primary sites have been described and a few cases have no detectable primary The photo was taken with a Minolta X-370 with 100mm Rokkor bellows lens on Kodak Elite ISO 100 film The illumination was four Photofloods and a blue compensating filter was used to balance color properly for this daylight-balanced film The exposure was probably something like 1/8 second at f/5 6 Photograph by Ed Uthman MD Public domain Posted 18 May 00 http //web2 airmail net/uthman/specimens/index html PD Licensig Ed Uthman Stomach cancer Gross pathology of neoplasms Gross pathology of neoplasms of female genital organs Krukenberg tumor | ||||
