St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee: gestational choriocarcinoma.
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.
Weiss
Aaron
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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
Khoury
Joseph D
JD
Kaste
Sue C
SC
Spunt
Sheri L
SL
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