Retained Placenta Accreta Mimicking Choriocarcinoma

This case demonstrates a rare event of retained invasive placenta masquerading as choriocarcinoma. The patient presented with heavy vaginal bleeding following vaginal delivery complicated by retained products of conception. Ultrasound and computed tomography demonstrated a vascular endometrial mass,...

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Autores principales: Kohi, Maureen P., Rizzuto, Gabrielle A., Fidelman, Nicholas, Lucero, Jennifer, Thiet, Mari-Paule
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4606209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26495146
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/167986
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author Kohi, Maureen P.
Rizzuto, Gabrielle A.
Fidelman, Nicholas
Lucero, Jennifer
Thiet, Mari-Paule
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description This case demonstrates a rare event of retained invasive placenta masquerading as choriocarcinoma. The patient presented with heavy vaginal bleeding following vaginal delivery complicated by retained products of conception. Ultrasound and computed tomography demonstrated a vascular endometrial mass, invading the uterine wall and raising suspicion for choriocarcinoma. Hysterectomy revealed retained invasive placenta.
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spelling pubmed-46062092015-10-22 Retained Placenta Accreta Mimicking Choriocarcinoma Kohi, Maureen P. Rizzuto, Gabrielle A. Fidelman, Nicholas Lucero, Jennifer Thiet, Mari-Paule Case Rep Pathol Case Report This case demonstrates a rare event of retained invasive placenta masquerading as choriocarcinoma. The patient presented with heavy vaginal bleeding following vaginal delivery complicated by retained products of conception. Ultrasound and computed tomography demonstrated a vascular endometrial mass, invading the uterine wall and raising suspicion for choriocarcinoma. Hysterectomy revealed retained invasive placenta. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4606209/ /pubmed/26495146 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/167986 Text en Copyright © 2015 Maureen P. Kohi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kohi, Maureen P.
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Retained Placenta Accreta Mimicking Choriocarcinoma
title Retained Placenta Accreta Mimicking Choriocarcinoma
title_full Retained Placenta Accreta Mimicking Choriocarcinoma
title_fullStr Retained Placenta Accreta Mimicking Choriocarcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Retained Placenta Accreta Mimicking Choriocarcinoma
title_short Retained Placenta Accreta Mimicking Choriocarcinoma
title_sort retained placenta accreta mimicking choriocarcinoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4606209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26495146
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/167986
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