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Disseminated disease including intra-cardiac metastasis from intermediate trophoblastic tumor of unspecified subtype, presenting in pregnancy
• Cardiac metastasis is a rare manifestation of trophoblastic malignancy; • Previous cases have exclusively been reported in choriocarcinoma histology; • Our case describes cardiac metastasis, as part of disseminated disease, from an intermediate trophoblastic tumor. • Our patient initially responde...
Autores principales: | , , , , |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4899421/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27331135 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2016.03.007 |
Sumario: | • Cardiac metastasis is a rare manifestation of trophoblastic malignancy; • Previous cases have exclusively been reported in choriocarcinoma histology; • Our case describes cardiac metastasis, as part of disseminated disease, from an intermediate trophoblastic tumor. • Our patient initially responded systemically to chemotherapy for a brief duration; • However, she died from CNS failure 4½ months after diagnosis; |
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