Pure ovarian choriocarcinoma: report of two cases

Pure primary ovarian choriocarcinoma is an extremely rare condition of gestational or nongestational origin. The possibility of gestational origin can be suspected by the presence of a corpus luteum of pregnancy but definite diagnosis would be based on genetic analysis. Here, we present two cases of...

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Autores principales: Mood, Narges Izadi, Samadi, Nasrin, Rahimi-Moghaddam, Parvaneh, Sarmadi, Soheila, Eftekhar, Zahra, Yarandi, Fariba
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3129104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21772904
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Sumario:Pure primary ovarian choriocarcinoma is an extremely rare condition of gestational or nongestational origin. The possibility of gestational origin can be suspected by the presence of a corpus luteum of pregnancy but definite diagnosis would be based on genetic analysis. Here, we present two cases of pure ovarian choriocarcinoma in the forth decade of life with the possibility of gestational origin.

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