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Two Cases of Ectopic Pregnancy Mimicking Gestational Trophoblastic Disease

A well-known typical feature of ectopic pregnancy is an evident gestational sac structure outside of the uterus. However, some cases show atypical appearance that is described as a heterogeneous hypervascular mass. We report two cases of ectopic pregnancy that presented heterogeneous findings mimick...

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Autores principales: Suzuki, Haruka, Chigusa, Yoshitsugu, Hamanishi, Junzo, Mandai, Masaki, Kondoh, Eiji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7315310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32607264
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/2417428
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author Suzuki, Haruka
Chigusa, Yoshitsugu
Hamanishi, Junzo
Mandai, Masaki
Kondoh, Eiji
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Hamanishi, Junzo
Mandai, Masaki
Kondoh, Eiji
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description A well-known typical feature of ectopic pregnancy is an evident gestational sac structure outside of the uterus. However, some cases show atypical appearance that is described as a heterogeneous hypervascular mass. We report two cases of ectopic pregnancy that presented heterogeneous findings mimicking gestational trophoblastic diseases but were correctly diagnosed as ectopic pregnancies on MRI. The first case was an interstitial pregnancy in which the patient underwent surgical treatment. The second case was a cesarean scar pregnancy that was treated conservatively but showed spurious enlargement of pregnancy-related lesions after the treatment. Both cases lacked myometrial invasion on MRI, and the patients were diagnosed with ectopic pregnancies. Invasive findings on MRI may discriminate ectopic pregnancy from trophoblastic tumors and avoid unnecessary hysterectomy.
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spelling pubmed-73153102020-06-29 Two Cases of Ectopic Pregnancy Mimicking Gestational Trophoblastic Disease Suzuki, Haruka Chigusa, Yoshitsugu Hamanishi, Junzo Mandai, Masaki Kondoh, Eiji Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report A well-known typical feature of ectopic pregnancy is an evident gestational sac structure outside of the uterus. However, some cases show atypical appearance that is described as a heterogeneous hypervascular mass. We report two cases of ectopic pregnancy that presented heterogeneous findings mimicking gestational trophoblastic diseases but were correctly diagnosed as ectopic pregnancies on MRI. The first case was an interstitial pregnancy in which the patient underwent surgical treatment. The second case was a cesarean scar pregnancy that was treated conservatively but showed spurious enlargement of pregnancy-related lesions after the treatment. Both cases lacked myometrial invasion on MRI, and the patients were diagnosed with ectopic pregnancies. Invasive findings on MRI may discriminate ectopic pregnancy from trophoblastic tumors and avoid unnecessary hysterectomy. Hindawi 2020-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7315310/ /pubmed/32607264 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/2417428 Text en Copyright © 2020 Haruka Suzuki et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Suzuki, Haruka
Chigusa, Yoshitsugu
Hamanishi, Junzo
Mandai, Masaki
Kondoh, Eiji
Two Cases of Ectopic Pregnancy Mimicking Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
title Two Cases of Ectopic Pregnancy Mimicking Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
title_full Two Cases of Ectopic Pregnancy Mimicking Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
title_fullStr Two Cases of Ectopic Pregnancy Mimicking Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
title_full_unstemmed Two Cases of Ectopic Pregnancy Mimicking Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
title_short Two Cases of Ectopic Pregnancy Mimicking Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
title_sort two cases of ectopic pregnancy mimicking gestational trophoblastic disease
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7315310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32607264
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/2417428
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