Refractory Choriocarcinoma: Complete Response With Oral Etoposide
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A 33-year-old, married woman came to the hospital in 2015 with bleeding from the vagina and shortness of breath of 3 months’ duration. Her obstetric history was as follows: the first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage, the second was a stillbirth, and the third was a molar pregnancy. She delivered a healthy girl after her fourth pregnancy 4 years ago. At presentation, her beta human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) level was 450,000mIU/mL, an ultrasound of the abdomen showed a 7 cm3 6 cm3 5 cm cystic mass in the endometrial cavity, a chest radiograph and a computed tomography scan of the chest showed multiple lung metastases, and magnetic resonance imaging of the brain showed hemorrhagic metastasis.
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