Choriocarcinoma with brain, lung and vaginal metastases successfully treated without brain radiation or intrathecal chemotherapy: A case report

• There is no consensus on optimal treatment for GTN and brain metastases. • Brain metastasis treated with craniotomy and intravenous, EMA-CO chemotherapy; • Intravenous high-dose methotrexate may be adequate to treat brain metastases.

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Autores principales: Frost, Anja S., Sherman, Jonathan H., Rezaei, Katayoon, Aron, Alivia, Lopez-Acevedo, Micael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5376261/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28393093
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2017.03.014
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author Frost, Anja S.
Sherman, Jonathan H.
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spelling pubmed-53762612017-04-07 Choriocarcinoma with brain, lung and vaginal metastases successfully treated without brain radiation or intrathecal chemotherapy: A case report Frost, Anja S. Sherman, Jonathan H. Rezaei, Katayoon Aron, Alivia Lopez-Acevedo, Micael Gynecol Oncol Rep Case Report • There is no consensus on optimal treatment for GTN and brain metastases. • Brain metastasis treated with craniotomy and intravenous, EMA-CO chemotherapy; • Intravenous high-dose methotrexate may be adequate to treat brain metastases. Elsevier 2017-03-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5376261/ /pubmed/28393093 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2017.03.014 Text en © 2017 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/).
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Frost, Anja S.
Sherman, Jonathan H.
Rezaei, Katayoon
Aron, Alivia
Lopez-Acevedo, Micael
Choriocarcinoma with brain, lung and vaginal metastases successfully treated without brain radiation or intrathecal chemotherapy: A case report
title Choriocarcinoma with brain, lung and vaginal metastases successfully treated without brain radiation or intrathecal chemotherapy: A case report
title_full Choriocarcinoma with brain, lung and vaginal metastases successfully treated without brain radiation or intrathecal chemotherapy: A case report
title_fullStr Choriocarcinoma with brain, lung and vaginal metastases successfully treated without brain radiation or intrathecal chemotherapy: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Choriocarcinoma with brain, lung and vaginal metastases successfully treated without brain radiation or intrathecal chemotherapy: A case report
title_short Choriocarcinoma with brain, lung and vaginal metastases successfully treated without brain radiation or intrathecal chemotherapy: A case report
title_sort choriocarcinoma with brain, lung and vaginal metastases successfully treated without brain radiation or intrathecal chemotherapy: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5376261/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28393093
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2017.03.014
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