Hysterectomy for Hydatid Mole

Chorio-epithelioma and malignant hydatid mole.

THERE SEEMS to be a great deal of confusion in the literature, due to the various terms used to describe these neoplasms. Malignant hydatidiform mole has been called destructive placental mole, invasive mole and chorio-adenoma destruens. Chorio-epithelioma has been referred to as chorioma or as chorio-carcinoma. In order to try to lessen the confusion the following comparative summary has been ...

Hydatid Mole and Its Relation to Deciduoma Malignum

Unusual Case of Hydatidiform Mole Dealt with by Abdominal Hysterectomy

The following case presents so many points of clinical interest, and the preparations of the uterus demonstrate so beautifully in an almost unique way some pathological points, that I venture to think it is not unworthy of your consideration this evening. All the more so that by a strange coincidence another paper follows mine dealing with another uterus containing a hydatidiform mole, in this ...

Perimenopausal invasive hyadatidiform mole treated by total abdominal hysterectomy followed by chemotherapy

Gestational trophoblastic neoplasias (GTNs) are rare tumors that constitute <1% of all gynecological malignancies. GTNs in postmenopausal women are rare and usually malignant. We present a rare case of an invasive mole of the uterus with metastasis to the right ovary and labium minus treated by total abdominal hysterectomy followed by chemotherapy.

Comparison of laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy and total abdominal hysterectomy

  Abstract   Background: Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgery procedure   done after cesarean section by gynecologists in many countries and the most common   procedure is total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH). The incidence of laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) performed for benign lesions has progressively increased in recent years. Our objective was to compare...