[Ovarian choriocarcinoma: about one case].
We report the case of a woman, 43 years old, presenting with an ovarian choriocarcinoma. This patient, addressed for a right-side suspicious pelvic mass, had an exploratory laparotomy. Frozen section found an ovarian cancer. The patient had total hysterectomy, left annexectomy and a complete staging surgery. Histology concluded to an ovarian gestational choriocarcinoma. It is a rare germinal tumour, the treatment of which was medical, with radical exeresis and complete staging surgery associated with polychemotherapy.
Aucouturier
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Service de gynécologie, centre hospitalier intercommunal Poissy-Saint-Germain-en-Laye, site de Saint-Germain, 20, rue Armagis, 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. jeansebastien.aucouturier@curie.net
Bader
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El Fata
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Guyot
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Louboutin
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Camus
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D000328:Adult; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000008:administration & dosage; D002822:Choriocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery