Primary mediastinal choriocarcinoma in a female patient: Case report and review of the literature

• Primary mediastinal choriocarcinoma is rare, especially in female patients. • Genomic losses predominated our case, which has not been previously reported. • This tumor lacked human chorionic gonadotropin and required histologic diagnosis.

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Autores principales: Batman, Samantha, Morgan, Terry, Brunetti, Marta, Strandabø, Rønnaug A.U., Micci, Francesca, Moffitt, Melissa, Pejovic, Tanja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6232631/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30456287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2018.10.013
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author Batman, Samantha
Morgan, Terry
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Micci, Francesca
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spelling pubmed-62326312018-11-19 Primary mediastinal choriocarcinoma in a female patient: Case report and review of the literature Batman, Samantha Morgan, Terry Brunetti, Marta Strandabø, Rønnaug A.U. Micci, Francesca Moffitt, Melissa Pejovic, Tanja Gynecol Oncol Rep Case Report • Primary mediastinal choriocarcinoma is rare, especially in female patients. • Genomic losses predominated our case, which has not been previously reported. • This tumor lacked human chorionic gonadotropin and required histologic diagnosis. Elsevier 2018-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6232631/ /pubmed/30456287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2018.10.013 Text en © 2018 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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Batman, Samantha
Morgan, Terry
Brunetti, Marta
Strandabø, Rønnaug A.U.
Micci, Francesca
Moffitt, Melissa
Pejovic, Tanja
Primary mediastinal choriocarcinoma in a female patient: Case report and review of the literature
title Primary mediastinal choriocarcinoma in a female patient: Case report and review of the literature
title_full Primary mediastinal choriocarcinoma in a female patient: Case report and review of the literature
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title_full_unstemmed Primary mediastinal choriocarcinoma in a female patient: Case report and review of the literature
title_short Primary mediastinal choriocarcinoma in a female patient: Case report and review of the literature
title_sort primary mediastinal choriocarcinoma in a female patient: case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6232631/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30456287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2018.10.013
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