Objectives: [corrected] To estimate the nutritional status of patients undergoing gastrointestinal anastomoses. To determine which test used for the malnutrition diagnose is better correlated with the presence of complications.
Methods: The nutritional status of 136 patients was done with hematologic and anthropometric tests and Subjective Global Assessment (SGA).
Choriocarcinoma is a highly vascularized gestational trophoblastic neoplasia, and has a propensity to metastasize hematogenously. Hepatic metastases are less common and spontaneous rupture of them results in a hemoperitoneum. We present a case of a young female with liver metastases from choriocarcinoma, who had severe haemorrhage and died after the second laparotomy.
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