Krukenbergn.
/ˈkrʊkənbəːɡ/ Medicine.
Used attributively to designate a kind of metastatic ovarian carcinoma that is usually secondary to a carcinoma of the stomach or colon (described by Krukenberg in 1896).
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Krukenberg1911
1911 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. 64 930 Among a series of metastatic ovarian carcinomata two..showed the picture of a Krukenberg tumor.
1934 R. A. Willis Spread of Tumours xxiii. 312 Gastric carcinomas which yield Krukenberg ovarian growths seldom yield metastases in other tissues.
1961 R. D. Baker Essent. Pathol. xvii. 464 The most characteristic of the metastatic tumors [of the ovary] comes from the stomach, produces mucous, signet-ring cells, and is called Krukenberg tumor.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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