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A 14-year-old Japanese girl was admitted to Kosei General Hospital on May 28, 1987 because of disturbance of visual acuity, bitemporal hemianopsia and general fatigue. About two months before, she had noticed disturbance of visual acuity and headache. The CT scans demonstrated iso density mass in
The patient was a 70-year-old male with complaint of macrohematuria at the first visit to our clinic on June 10, 1986. At that time, cystoscopy revealed a thumb sized papillary tumor and a rice sized non papillary tumor, and the biopsy specimen was pathologically diagnosed as undifferentiated
Primary extrauterine choriocarcinoma especially in the postmenopausal period is very rare. A 69-year-old woman, complaining of back pain, weakness, and severe fatigue with gross hematuria, was found to have paraovarian pelvic mass and underwent laparotomy. At the operation, a mass located in the
Metastatic choriocarcinoma was suspected in a 39-year-old woman who presented 7 months postpartum with fatigue, pelvic pain, a massive pleural effusion, and a positive urine pregnancy test. Subsequent evaluation resulted in discovery of the isolated production of the free beta-subunit of chorionic
OBJECTIVE
To assess toxicity and efficacy of weekly high-dose methotrexate-etoposide (HD MTX-ETO) in high-risk gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN).
METHODS
Retrospective chart review of high-risk GTN patients treated with HD MTX-ETO (methotrexate 1000 mg/m² day 1, etoposide 100 mg/m² days 1