Long-term survival of a patient with primary sellar choriocarcinoma with pulmonary metastases: A case report
β Scribed by Sievers, Eric L.; Berger, Mitchell; Geyer, J. Russell
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 255 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0098-1532
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β¦ Synopsis
Extracranial metastasis is an unusual vor of primary intracranial choriocarcinoma with pulmonary metastasis. The patient had a complete response to combination chemotherapy with cisplatin, etoposide, and bleomycin and is surviving free of disease >3 years from diagnosis. 01~6WiIey-L1ss, inc. complication of most types of primary intracranial tumor. Approximately one-third of reported cases of primary intracranial choriocarcinorna have been associated with pulmonary tumor metastasis. The prognosis of such patients has been uniformly fatal. This report describes a probable long-term survi-
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