title: Choriocarcinoma in the pulmonary artery treated with emergency pulmonary embolectomy.
abstract: A 42-year-old woman with choriocarcinoma required emergency pulmonary embolectomy under cardiopulmonary bypass. After diagnosis of choriocarcinoma was confirmed by examination of tumor emboli specimens, the patient was treated and had complete remission by chemotherapy over a 6-month period. Although rare, choriocarcinoma should be considered in the differential diagnosis of fertile women presenting with pulmonary embolism.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Surgery, Kagoshima University Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima, Japan.
authors.forename: Shun-ichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shimokawa
authors.forename: Koh-ichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakasegawa
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Masuda
authors.forename: Ryuzo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sakata
authors.forename: Michiyo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Higashi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002822:Choriocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017128:Embolectomy; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating / Q000473:pathology; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*