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...

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Autores principales: Xu, Wen, Singh, Mahendra, Yan, Hui, Lwin, Zarnie, Eastgate, Melissa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
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
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author Xu, Wen
Singh, Mahendra
Yan, Hui
Lwin, Zarnie
Eastgate, Melissa
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description • 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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spelling pubmed-48994212016-06-21 Disseminated disease including intra-cardiac metastasis from intermediate trophoblastic tumor of unspecified subtype, presenting in pregnancy Xu, Wen Singh, Mahendra Yan, Hui Lwin, Zarnie Eastgate, Melissa Gynecol Oncol Rep Case Report • 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; Elsevier 2016-04-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4899421/ /pubmed/27331135 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2016.03.007 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
spellingShingle Case Report
Xu, Wen
Singh, Mahendra
Yan, Hui
Lwin, Zarnie
Eastgate, Melissa
Disseminated disease including intra-cardiac metastasis from intermediate trophoblastic tumor of unspecified subtype, presenting in pregnancy
title Disseminated disease including intra-cardiac metastasis from intermediate trophoblastic tumor of unspecified subtype, presenting in pregnancy
title_full Disseminated disease including intra-cardiac metastasis from intermediate trophoblastic tumor of unspecified subtype, presenting in pregnancy
title_fullStr Disseminated disease including intra-cardiac metastasis from intermediate trophoblastic tumor of unspecified subtype, presenting in pregnancy
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated disease including intra-cardiac metastasis from intermediate trophoblastic tumor of unspecified subtype, presenting in pregnancy
title_short Disseminated disease including intra-cardiac metastasis from intermediate trophoblastic tumor of unspecified subtype, presenting in pregnancy
title_sort disseminated disease including intra-cardiac metastasis from intermediate trophoblastic tumor of unspecified subtype, presenting in pregnancy
topic Case Report
url 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
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