Primary choriocarcinoma in postmenopausal women: Two case reports and review of the Texas Cancer Registry

• We report on the medical treatment and outcomes of choriocarcinoma in Hispanic postmenopausal women. • A diagnosis of choriocarcinoma should be considered in older women with elevated serum β-hCG levels. • The unadjusted incidence of choriocarcinoma was calculated using data from the Texas Cancer...

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Autores principales: Rafanan, Leslie F., Greenberg, Harvey, Rondeau, Nancy U., Mulla, Zuber D., Boman, Darius A.
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/PMC5643075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29062882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2017.09.016
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author Rafanan, Leslie F.
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Boman, Darius A.
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spelling pubmed-56430752017-10-23 Primary choriocarcinoma in postmenopausal women: Two case reports and review of the Texas Cancer Registry Rafanan, Leslie F. Greenberg, Harvey Rondeau, Nancy U. Mulla, Zuber D. Boman, Darius A. Gynecol Oncol Rep Case Report • We report on the medical treatment and outcomes of choriocarcinoma in Hispanic postmenopausal women. • A diagnosis of choriocarcinoma should be considered in older women with elevated serum β-hCG levels. • The unadjusted incidence of choriocarcinoma was calculated using data from the Texas Cancer Registry. Elsevier 2017-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5643075/ /pubmed/29062882 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2017.09.016 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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Rafanan, Leslie F.
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Primary choriocarcinoma in postmenopausal women: Two case reports and review of the Texas Cancer Registry
title Primary choriocarcinoma in postmenopausal women: Two case reports and review of the Texas Cancer Registry
title_full Primary choriocarcinoma in postmenopausal women: Two case reports and review of the Texas Cancer Registry
title_fullStr Primary choriocarcinoma in postmenopausal women: Two case reports and review of the Texas Cancer Registry
title_full_unstemmed Primary choriocarcinoma in postmenopausal women: Two case reports and review of the Texas Cancer Registry
title_short Primary choriocarcinoma in postmenopausal women: Two case reports and review of the Texas Cancer Registry
title_sort primary choriocarcinoma in postmenopausal women: two case reports and review of the texas cancer registry
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5643075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29062882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2017.09.016
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