St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee: gestational choriocarcinoma

Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2006 Oct 15;47(5):640-6. doi: 10.1002/pbc.20560.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Choriocarcinoma / diagnosis*
  • Choriocarcinoma / pathology
  • Choriocarcinoma / therapy
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Hospitals, Pediatric
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Positron-Emission Tomography
  • Tennessee
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Uterine Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Uterine Neoplasms / pathology
  • Uterine Neoplasms / therapy