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Urgent embolization of hemorrhagic choriocarcinoma liver metastases--case report and review of the literature
- Source :
- Ginekologia polska. 86(12)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- We present a rare case of 23-year-old patient with metastatic choriocarcinoma that presented life threatening abdominal bleeding from liver metastases shortly after initiation of treatment with chemotherapy and was treated by emergency embolization of the hepatic vessels. Although the bleeding was controlled, the patient succumbed to the disease on the 15th day after admission. Conclusions: Incontrollable hemorrhagic complications are the most common cause of death in choriocarcinoma metastatic patients. Angioembolization is an effective way of ceasing the bleeding and a potentially life saving measure.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Chemotherapy
Uterine Hemorrhage
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Choriocarcinoma
Liver Neoplasms
Choriocarcinoma, Non-gestational
Hemodynamics
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Disease
Uterine Artery Embolization
medicine.disease
Surgery
Young Adult
Uterine artery embolization
Hemorrhagic complication
medicine
Humans
Female
Embolization
Young adult
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00170011
- Volume :
- 86
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Ginekologia polska
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3108873a862b74324592931c94c11fa8