[Choriocarcinoma causing a pulmonary embolus].
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.
Theliade
Juliane E
JE
Medicinsk Afdeling B, Rigshospitalet, DK-2100 København Ø. lene.holmvang@dadlnet.dk.
Skovby
Annette M L
AM
Kirk
Vibeke
V
Parvaiz
Imran
I
Holmvang
Lene
L
D000328:Adult; D002822:Choriocarcinoma / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*