Ovarian Cancer: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Neoplasms – Tumor Diseases (C00-D48).

  • Ovarian metastases – daughter tumors arising from an ovarian cancer.
  • Ovarian tumors originating from the germinal stroma such as granulosa theca cell tumors or Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors
  • Ovarian tumors that arise from the germ cells such as teratoma, dysgerminoma, sinus tumors, or chorionic carcinoma
  • Ovarian tumors originating from surface epithelial cells such as serous, mucinous tumors or Brenner tumor
  • Krukenberg tumor (fibrosarcoma ovarii mucocellulare carcinomatodes) – ovarian metastases of gastrointestinal carcinoma (histology: mucus-filled signet ring cells → drip metastases of primary gastric carcinoma/stomach cancer).