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Akira Namba1, Shunsuke Nakagawa, Naohito Nakamura
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Background:
Recent developments in genetic analysis allow determination of the origin of choriocarcinoma (ie, gestational or nongestational), which helps determine the strategy for clinical treatment of the disease.
Case:
We present a case of ovarian choriocarcinoma forming a huge ovarian mass 40 days after the patient's last menstrual period. Deoxyribonucleic acid microsatellite analysis of the tumor revealed that it contained a single maternal and two paternal alleles at several independent loci, consistent with the tumor resulting from ovarian pregnancy of a partial hydatidiform mole.
Conclusion:
This is the first description of an ovarian pregnancy of a partial hydatidiform mole-derived ovarian choriocarcinoma.
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