Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia with extrauterine metastasis but lacked uterine primary lesions: a single center experience and literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To investigate the clinicopathological characteristics, diagnoses, treatments, and outcomes of a special type of gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN) which only has extrauterine metastases without uterine primary lesions.

Methods

The medical records and pathological sections of the patients who were pathologically diagnosed as GTN, only had extrauterine metastatic lesions but lacked uterine primary lesions, in Women's Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine from February 2014 to March 2021 were collected and reviewed.

Results

Thirteen patients with pathologically confirmed GTN presenting with extrauterine metastases from a missing primary site were included in the past 7 years. The median age was 31.2 years old. 76.9% of patients had a non-h

SUBMITTER: Li J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9077999 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature