Metastatic gestational choriocarcinoma in lung incidentally found by hemoptysis and confirmed by DNA genotyping, highly suggesting the index antecedent pregnancy of a girl

• Main Authors: Shohei Matsuo (Author), Emiko Tomita (Author), Kenjiro Fukuhara (Author), Shogo Kasuda (Author), Koichi Suzuki (Author), Yoshitane Tsukamoto (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We experienced a 46-year-old Japanese female with metastatic choriocarcinoma in lung found by hemoptysis. The Pathology findings of the surgical lung specimen showed multiple foci of peripheral clustering of trimorphic malignant trophoblasts with central hemorrhagic necrosis. Tumor cells were mostly...