[Evaluation of emergency craniotomy for the treatment of patients with intracranial metastases of choriocarcinoma].

Objective: To study the diagnosis, management and prognosis of intracranial metastases of gestational trophoblastic tumour (GTT) patients who had emergency surgical decompression due to highly increased intracranial pressure.

Methods: Ninety-three patients with intracranial metastases of gestational trophoblastic tumour were hospitalized in our department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital from 1985 to 2004. Thirteen of them who underwent emergency craniotomy were retrospectively analyzed, and all of them presented with raised intracranial pressure and intracerebral haemorrhagic mass.