Clinical outcome of a FIGO stage IV gestational choriocarcinoma
- Choriocarcinoma is the most malignant tumor of gestational trophoblastic disease arising from any gestation. It has a tendency toward relapse as well as metastasis. Here, a case of relapsed high-risk choriocarcinoma (FIGO stage IV, WHO score 12) in a 37-year-old female presenting with vaginal bleedings is described. Relapse developed at the site of the surgical scar from hysterectomy that had been performed 2 years earlier. Although the patient was treated with aggressive chemotherapy, she was in a bad general condition and died from infection and liver insufficiency.
Author: | Vera Milenković, Biljana Lazović, Marija Mačvanski, Katarina Jeremić, Zlatko Hrgović |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-380599 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1159/000353626 |
Parent Title (English): | Case Reports in Oncology |
Publisher: | Karger |
Place of publication: | Basel |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2013 |
Date of first Publication: | 2013/09/28 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2017/10/29 |
Volume: | 6 |
Page Number: | 4 |
First Page: | 504 |
Last Page: | 507 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 452460883 |
Institutes: | Medizin / Medizin |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell 3.0 |