PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - BACALBASA, NICOLAE
AU  - BALESCU, IRINA
AU  - BRASOVEANU, VLADISLAV
AU  - ANCA, ALEXANDRU FLORIN
TI  - Debulking Surgery for Pelvic Recurrence After Surgically-treated Tubal Gestational Choriocarcinoma – A Case Report and Literature Review
DP  - 2018 Jan 01
TA  - Anticancer Research
PG  - 423--426
VI  - 38
IP  - 1
4099  - http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/38/1/423.short
4100  - http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/38/1/423.full
SO  - Anticancer Res2018 Jan 01; 38
AB  - Gestational choriocarcinomas are very rare malignancies, with only few cases being reported so far. Moreover, the presence of pelvic recurrences after surgically-treated gestational choriocarcinomas is even scarcer situations. We present the case of a 19-year-old patient who was initially submitted to surgery with preoperative diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy. At that moment a left salpingectomy was performed, and the histopathological studies revealed the presence of a left tubal gestational choriocarcinoma. The patient was submitted to adjuvant chemotherapy with methotrexate and dactinomycin. However, six months later she was diagnosed with a pelvic recurrence so she was resubmitted to surgery, debulking to no residual disease being successfully performed. The histopathological studies confirmed the presence of a recurrent tumor with gestational choriocarcinoma structure.