title: [Choriocarcinoma causing a pulmonary embolus].
abstract: A 32 year-old women experienced dyspnea and thoracic pain that persisted with variable intensity over a course of eight months until acute worsening necessitated admission. A CT scan demonstrated a central pulmonary embolus. Subsequent surgical embolectomy produced a grained substance that was histologically compatible with a choriocarcinoma. Trophoblast tumors are rare, but unspecific symptoms from lungs, liver, kidney or brain warrant control of S-hCG in women, even when pregnancy has not been recognized or menopause has been reached.
authors.affiliation: Medicinsk Afdeling B, Rigshospitalet, DK-2100 København Ø. lene.holmvang@dadlnet.dk.
authors.forename: Juliane E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Theliade
authors.forename: Annette M L
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Skovby
authors.forename: Vibeke
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kirk
authors.forename: Imran
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Parvaiz
authors.forename: Lene
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Holmvang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002822:Choriocarcinoma / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*