[Ovarian choriocarcinoma: about one case].

Gynecol Obstet Fertil

Service de gynécologie, centre hospitalier intercommunal Poissy-Saint-Germain-en-Laye, site de Saint-Germain, 20, rue Armagis, 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.

Published: June 2003

We report the case of a woman, 43 years old, presenting with an ovarian choriocarcinoma. This patient, addressed for a right-side suspicious pelvic mass, had an exploratory laparotomy. Frozen section found an ovarian cancer. The patient had total hysterectomy, left annexectomy and a complete staging surgery. Histology concluded to an ovarian gestational choriocarcinoma. It is a rare germinal tumour, the treatment of which was medical, with radical exeresis and complete staging surgery associated with polychemotherapy.

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