INTRA-THORACIC METASTASIS FROM OVARIAN CARCINOMA——REPORT ON 50 PATIENTS

Eight percent (50/616) of ovarian carcinoma patients, fiom March 1958 to February 1987 into our hospital, developed Jaffa-thoracic metastasis. The respective metastatic rates of epithelial carcinoma was 8.4% (30/356), germ cell carcinoma 8.6% (10/116), ovarian granulosa cell tumor 7.1% (4/56), add the others 6.8% (6/88). The jaffa-thoracic metastasis was discovered at the time of admission in 26 of these 50 patients and during or after treatment in 24. The manifestation most commonly observed was pleurisy with effusion (34/50cases), followed by lung-parenchymal metastases was 16 eases (32%), associated with metastases of mediastium (3cases) and paraeardic metastases (3 cases).Patients in the present series were followed for a mean duration of 14.9 months. Except the four surviving patients who are still being followed, the rest 46 dead patients gave a median survival of 8.5 months.