The role of pulmonary resection in the management of metastatic gestational trophoblastic neoplasia: Two cases of durable remission following surgery for chemo-resistant disease

• GTN is typically a chemo-responsive and highly curative gynecologic malignancy. • Surgery may be beneficial in as many as 2/3 of patients with high-risk GTN. • In select patients, resection of drug-resistant pulmonary metastases is effective.

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Autores principales: Staples, Jeanine N., Podwika, Sarah, Duska, Linda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6804952/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31693720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2019.100496
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spelling pubmed-68049522019-11-05 The role of pulmonary resection in the management of metastatic gestational trophoblastic neoplasia: Two cases of durable remission following surgery for chemo-resistant disease Staples, Jeanine N. Podwika, Sarah Duska, Linda Gynecol Oncol Rep Case Report • GTN is typically a chemo-responsive and highly curative gynecologic malignancy. • Surgery may be beneficial in as many as 2/3 of patients with high-risk GTN. • In select patients, resection of drug-resistant pulmonary metastases is effective. Elsevier 2019-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6804952/ /pubmed/31693720 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2019.100496 Text en © 2019 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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Staples, Jeanine N.
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The role of pulmonary resection in the management of metastatic gestational trophoblastic neoplasia: Two cases of durable remission following surgery for chemo-resistant disease
title The role of pulmonary resection in the management of metastatic gestational trophoblastic neoplasia: Two cases of durable remission following surgery for chemo-resistant disease
title_full The role of pulmonary resection in the management of metastatic gestational trophoblastic neoplasia: Two cases of durable remission following surgery for chemo-resistant disease
title_fullStr The role of pulmonary resection in the management of metastatic gestational trophoblastic neoplasia: Two cases of durable remission following surgery for chemo-resistant disease
title_full_unstemmed The role of pulmonary resection in the management of metastatic gestational trophoblastic neoplasia: Two cases of durable remission following surgery for chemo-resistant disease
title_short The role of pulmonary resection in the management of metastatic gestational trophoblastic neoplasia: Two cases of durable remission following surgery for chemo-resistant disease
title_sort role of pulmonary resection in the management of metastatic gestational trophoblastic neoplasia: two cases of durable remission following surgery for chemo-resistant disease
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6804952/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31693720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2019.100496
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