title: [Primary pulmonary choriocarcinoma].
abstract: The authors report a case of a young woman who had been found to have a chorio-carcinoma in the apex of the left lower lobe, following a major and recurrent haemothorax. A study of her past history and a gynaecological examination had not revealed any evidence of a primary tumour. Following this observation the possibility of a primary pulmonary carcinoma was considered and also the usual aetiological hypothesis, namely the migration of trophoblastic cells during an abortion even followed by a normal pregnancy and a degeneration after several years of these cells blocked in the pulmonary capillaries.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pneumologie, Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hermant
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kieffer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Robillard
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002822:Choriocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Choriocarcinome pulmonaire primitif.