Diagnosis, classification and treatment of gestational trophoblastic neoplasia

• Main Authors: Andressa Biscaro (Author), Antônio Braga (Author), Ross Stuart Berkowitz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Federação Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN) is the term to describe a set of malignant placental diseases, including invasive mole, choriocarcinoma, placental site trophoblastic tumor and epithelioid trophoblastic tumor. Both invasive mole and choriocarcinoma respond well to chemotherapy, and cure rat...