Intraplacental choriocarcinoma in a term placenta with both maternal and infantile metastases: A case report and review of the literature

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1147-1151

  Liu, Jianping ^a   Guo, Lina ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Intraplacental choriocarcinoma; Metastasis; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLOXURIDINE; KENGSENGMYCIN; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CHORION VILLUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CURETTAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METASTASIS; MICROSCOPY; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH ULCER; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; TROPHOBLAST; VAGINA BLEEDING;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHORIOCARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PLACENTA DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC;

EID: 33751394437     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2006.08.007     Document Type: Article

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