Acute intestinal obstruction and splenic hemorrhage due to metastatic choriocarcinoma. A case report.
Choriocarcinomas are rare malignancies which occasionally cause acute abdominal symptoms, mainly in the form of hemorrhage. We here describe a patient with metastatic choriocarcinoma presenting as acute intestinal obstruction and splenic hemorrhage. This seems to be the first report in the literature of a choriocarcinoma causing invagination of the small intestine. The abdominal manifestations of the neoplasm are briefly discussed.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D002822:Choriocarcinoma / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007077:Ileal Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D011247:Pregnancy; D013158:Splenic Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*