Primary choriocarcinoma of the colon: a case report and review of the literature

Choriocarcinoma usually arises in the uterus and gonads. Primary choriocarcinoma (PCC) in an extragenital organ is rare. When it occurs in the gastrointestinal tract, the stomach is the most common site. Only 12 cases of PCC of the colon have been reported in the world literature. Most cases were as...

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Autores principales: Jiang, Lun, Wu, Jing-Tao, Peng, Xin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3566947/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23356395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-23
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description Choriocarcinoma usually arises in the uterus and gonads. Primary choriocarcinoma (PCC) in an extragenital organ is rare. When it occurs in the gastrointestinal tract, the stomach is the most common site. Only 12 cases of PCC of the colon have been reported in the world literature. Most cases were associated with adenocarcinoma. We report the case of a 36-year-old man with PCC of the colon and review the clinical characteristics of previously documented cases.
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spelling pubmed-35669472013-02-11 Primary choriocarcinoma of the colon: a case report and review of the literature Jiang, Lun Wu, Jing-Tao Peng, Xin World J Surg Oncol Case Report Choriocarcinoma usually arises in the uterus and gonads. Primary choriocarcinoma (PCC) in an extragenital organ is rare. When it occurs in the gastrointestinal tract, the stomach is the most common site. Only 12 cases of PCC of the colon have been reported in the world literature. Most cases were associated with adenocarcinoma. We report the case of a 36-year-old man with PCC of the colon and review the clinical characteristics of previously documented cases. BioMed Central 2013-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3566947/ /pubmed/23356395 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-23 Text en Copyright ©2013 Jiang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Primary choriocarcinoma of the colon: a case report and review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3566947/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23356395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-23
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