Amenorrhea and elevated βhuman chorionic gonadotropin of unknown origin: An unexpected location of choriocarcinoma

Choriocarcinoma is a rare malignancy originating from trophoblastic cells that is known to arise from the placenta. In this report, we describe the case of a 28-year-old female who consulted for amenorrhea and elevated βhCG mimicking a pregnancy of an unknown location, which ultimately turned out to...

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Autores principales: Ben Abdallah, Ichrak, Mlika, Mona, Berrazega, Yosra, Mejri, Nesrine, Rachdi, Haifa, El Benna, Houda, Daoud, Nouha, Laabidi, Soumaya, Mezni, Faouzi, Boussen, Hamouda
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Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8047451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33889701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2021.100746
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author Ben Abdallah, Ichrak
Mlika, Mona
Berrazega, Yosra
Mejri, Nesrine
Rachdi, Haifa
El Benna, Houda
Daoud, Nouha
Laabidi, Soumaya
Mezni, Faouzi
Boussen, Hamouda
author_facet Ben Abdallah, Ichrak
Mlika, Mona
Berrazega, Yosra
Mejri, Nesrine
Rachdi, Haifa
El Benna, Houda
Daoud, Nouha
Laabidi, Soumaya
Mezni, Faouzi
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description Choriocarcinoma is a rare malignancy originating from trophoblastic cells that is known to arise from the placenta. In this report, we describe the case of a 28-year-old female who consulted for amenorrhea and elevated βhCG mimicking a pregnancy of an unknown location, which ultimately turned out to be primary choriocarcinoma of the lung.
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spelling pubmed-80474512021-04-21 Amenorrhea and elevated βhuman chorionic gonadotropin of unknown origin: An unexpected location of choriocarcinoma Ben Abdallah, Ichrak Mlika, Mona Berrazega, Yosra Mejri, Nesrine Rachdi, Haifa El Benna, Houda Daoud, Nouha Laabidi, Soumaya Mezni, Faouzi Boussen, Hamouda Gynecol Oncol Rep Case Report Choriocarcinoma is a rare malignancy originating from trophoblastic cells that is known to arise from the placenta. In this report, we describe the case of a 28-year-old female who consulted for amenorrhea and elevated βhCG mimicking a pregnancy of an unknown location, which ultimately turned out to be primary choriocarcinoma of the lung. Elsevier 2021-03-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8047451/ /pubmed/33889701 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2021.100746 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) https://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/).
spellingShingle Case Report
Ben Abdallah, Ichrak
Mlika, Mona
Berrazega, Yosra
Mejri, Nesrine
Rachdi, Haifa
El Benna, Houda
Daoud, Nouha
Laabidi, Soumaya
Mezni, Faouzi
Boussen, Hamouda
Amenorrhea and elevated βhuman chorionic gonadotropin of unknown origin: An unexpected location of choriocarcinoma
title Amenorrhea and elevated βhuman chorionic gonadotropin of unknown origin: An unexpected location of choriocarcinoma
title_full Amenorrhea and elevated βhuman chorionic gonadotropin of unknown origin: An unexpected location of choriocarcinoma
title_fullStr Amenorrhea and elevated βhuman chorionic gonadotropin of unknown origin: An unexpected location of choriocarcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Amenorrhea and elevated βhuman chorionic gonadotropin of unknown origin: An unexpected location of choriocarcinoma
title_short Amenorrhea and elevated βhuman chorionic gonadotropin of unknown origin: An unexpected location of choriocarcinoma
title_sort amenorrhea and elevated βhuman chorionic gonadotropin of unknown origin: an unexpected location of choriocarcinoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8047451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33889701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2021.100746
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