title: Placental-site trophoblastic tumor: diagnosis, treatment, and biological behavior.
abstract: The clinical history of a patient with a placental-site trophoblastic tumor is presented. The diagnostic and therapeutic value of dilatation and curettage, the human chorionic gonadotropin titer, hysteroscopy, laparoscopy, chemotherapy, and hysterectomy is discussed, as well as the possibility of metastatic disease. In this patient there was radiological evidence of pulmonary metastasis with apparent spontaneous regression. A proposal is made to change the name of this disease to gestational trophoblastic neoplasia of low potential malignancy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, State University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Heintz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schaberg
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Engelsman
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: van Hall
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010920:Placenta; D011247:Pregnancy; D014328:Trophoblastic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy