A 62-year-old woman undergoing surgery to remove ovarian cancer and postoperative chemotherapy in M arch 2003 had been followed in the clinic until M arch 2010,when the serum level of CA125 started to increase. Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography(FDG-PET)showed abnormal uptake of FDG in the spleen. An abdominal CT scan showed a tumor in the spleen. Solitary metastasis to the spleen from ovarian cancer or primary splenic tumor was likely and we conducted laparoscopic splenectomy in

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... ril 2010. The pathological diagnosis of the tumor was adenocarcinoma compatible with metastasis from ovarian cancer. The patient' s postoperative course was uneventful. She was discharged on 6th postoperative days and underwent adjuvant chemotherapy as an outpatient. There have been no recurrence as of 4 months after the surgery. Since solitary splenic metastasis from ovarian cancer is rare, we report on this case with some bibliographical comments.