Metastatic involvement of the urinary tract in patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma: lessons from the autopsy for an interdisciplinary treatment approach.

The article reports on the study that evaluates the frequency of metastases in urologic organs found at autopsy of ovarian carcinoma patients. It observes 21.2% of patient with hydronephrosis and 55.6% had ureteral involvement. It suggests that hydronephrosis in late stages of ovarian carcinoma usually attributed to extrinsic compression of the ureter by an abdominal tumor.