Intraplacental choriocarcinoma: Experience from a tertiary referral center and relationship with infantile choriocarcinoma

Fetal and Pediatric Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-29

  Sebire, N J ^a   Lindsay, I ^a   Fisher, R A ^a   Seckl, M J ^a  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choriocarcinoma; Intraplacental; Trophoblastic disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHORIOCARCINOMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; FETUS DISTRESS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHORIOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DISEASES; PREGNANCY; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 22544433213     PISSN: 15513815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15227950590961180     Document Type: Article

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