Choriocarcinoma in the pulmonary artery treated with emergency pulmonary embolectomy.
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.
Watanabe
Shun-ichi
S
Second Department of Surgery, Kagoshima University Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima, Japan.
Shimokawa
Shinji
S
Sakasegawa
Koh-ichi
K
Masuda
Hiroshi
H
Sakata
Ryuzo
R
Higashi
Michiyo
M
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*