title: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee: gestational choriocarcinoma.
abstract: This paper describes a recent tumor board presentation conducted at our institution involving an adolescent with gestational choriocarcinoma. Despite its rarity in pediatrics, gestational choriocarcinoma offers unique diagnostic, treatment and off-therapy considerations in adolescent patients who have become pregnant. Key features and findings of the case as well as important management issues will be discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology/Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and Department of Radiology, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee 38105-2794, USA. aaron.weiss@stjude.org
authors.forename: Aaron
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Weiss
authors.forename: Joseph D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Khoury
authors.forename: Sue C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Kaste
authors.forename: Sheri L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Spunt
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002822:Choriocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D013714:Tennessee; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy