These findings demonstrate that age and tumor size are important factors in making a differential diagnosis. In addition, SCC and CEA levels should be measured in patients age 45 years or older who have an MCT-like ovarian tumor larger than 99 mm in greatest dimension.

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Placenta previa increta/percreta is a life-threatening disease. Patients who undergo hysterectomy after uterine arterial embolization demonstrate reduced intraoperation blood loss, and this treatment should be incorporated to reduce maternal morbidity.

Distribution of stage and substage differed between CCA and SCA in this study. Thus, substaging is quite important for comparison of prognoses between histologies, and CCA showed poorer prognoses than serous adenocarcinoma in stages IIIb and IIIc.

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