Ashraf-Ganjooei Tahereh, Ghaemmaghami Fatemeh
Obstetric and Gynecology Department, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Afzali poor Hospital, Imam Highway, Kerman, Iran.
Arch Gynecol Obstet. 2008 May;277(5):465-70. doi: 10.1007/s00404-007-0469-3. Epub 2007 Oct 17.
Early recognition of gestational trophoblastic neoplasms (GTN) will maximize the chances of cure with chemotherapy but some patients present with many different symptoms months or even years after the causative pregnancy making diagnosis difficult. Clinicians should be aware of the possibility of GTN in any reproductive age woman with bizarre central nervous system symptoms, gastrointestinal symptoms or radiographic evidence of metastatic tumor of unknown primary origin. We reported two cases of metastatic gestational trophoblastic neoplasms with bizarre pulmonary symptoms, one patient with small bowel metastasis, and two patients with brain metastasis presenting with unusual manifestations.
早期识别妊娠滋养细胞肿瘤(GTN)将使化疗治愈的机会最大化,但有些患者在致病妊娠数月甚至数年之后才出现许多不同症状,这使得诊断变得困难。临床医生应意识到,任何育龄期女性若出现怪异的中枢神经系统症状、胃肠道症状或有未知原发灶的转移性肿瘤的影像学证据,都有可能是GTN。我们报告了两例具有怪异肺部症状的转移性妊娠滋养细胞肿瘤病例,一例有小肠转移,两例脑转移患者有不寻常表现。