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When less is more: regarding the use of chest X-ray instead of computed tomography in screening for pulmonary metastasis in postmolar gestational trophoblastic neoplasia

We discuss the use of chest computed tomography (CT) in the initial screening for gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN) metastases. Chest CT does not influence overall treatment outcome or the time to remission. We endorse the FIGO recommendation for the screening of GTN metastases should be don...

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Autores principales: Braga, Antonio, Elias, Kevin Meyer, Horowitz, Neil Stuart, Berkowitz, Ross Stuart
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7961040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33420424
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41416-020-01209-5