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Case Reports in Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 735026, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/735026
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Brain Metastasis as an Initial Manifestation of Ovarian Carcinoma: A Case Report

Zafer Selçuk Tuncer,1 Gokhan Boyraz,2 Aslıhan Yazıcıoğlu,2 İlker Selcuk,2 and Senem Özge Yücel2

1Gynecologic Oncology Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 06100 Ankara, Turkey
2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 06100 Ankara, Turkey

Received 2 November 2012; Accepted 11 December 2012

Academic Editor: Michail Varras

Copyright © 2012 Zafer Selçuk Tuncer et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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