Author's Reply: Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia
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Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia.
Trophoblastic neoplasms are a truly fascinating set of diseases that arise from a failed gestation. A molar pregnancy is an allograft of fetal tissue typically containing only paternal chromosomes that may invade the maternal decidua following a failed gestation that may have arisen up to decades earlier. Choriocarcinoma (CCA), the most common malignant form of trophoblastic disease, represente...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0007-9235
DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.32.3.191-a