A case of ovarian vein thrombosis in a patient with extensive stage small cell lung cancer with metastasis to the pancreas.

Rahul Pansare¹, Misako Nagasaka^{2 3}, Garrett Walworth², Nithin Thummala², Shirish Gadgeel^4*

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, St. Mary Mercy Livonia, Livonia, Michigan, USA.

² Department of Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

³ Department of Advanced Medical Innovation, St. Marianna University Graduate School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.

⁴ Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Hematology Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

*Corresponding author: Misako Nagasaka, MD. Department of Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute. 4100 John R, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Phone: 313-576-8720. Email:

Citation: Rahul Pansare, et al. A case of ovarian vein thrombosis in a patient with extensive stage small cell lung cancer with metastasis to the pancreas. Cancer Research Frontiers. 2017; 3(1): 157-160. doi: 10.17980/2017.157

Copyright: @ 2017 Rahul Pansare, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Competing Interests: The authors declare no competing financial interests. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

Received Dec 18, 2017; Revised Mar 15, 2018; Accepted Mar 20, 2018. Published Apr 10, 2018

Abstract

Ovarian vein thrombosis is a well-known but rare entity, which is most often diagnosed during the postpartum period. It has also been reported to be associated with inflammatory and malignant processes within the abdomen and pelvis. We report an unusual case of ovarian vein thrombosis in a patient with extensive stage small cell lung cancer with metastasis to the pancreas. This diagnosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis for pelvic pain in a patient with primary or metastatic intra-abdominal/intra-pelvic malignancy.

Keywords: Ovarian vein thrombosis, pancreatic metastasis, small cell lung cancer.