The use of the term Krukenberg tumor is based on textbooks published by Scully, Young and Kurman. It is defined as a carcinoma that occurs in the ovary and which has a significant component of stringy mucin and typically has signet ring cells within a proliferative cellular stroma derived from the normal stroma of the ovary.
El concepto de tumor de Krukenberg se encuentra fundamentado en los libros de texto publicados por Scully, Young y Kurman y se define como el carcinoma que se presenta en el ovario, y que tiene un componente significativo de mucina MUC filante y células típicas en "anillo de sello'' dentro de un estroma celular proliferativo derivado del estroma normal del ovario.