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Renato Augusto Menegaz1, Andréa Duarte Resende, Cléber Sérgio da Silva

  • 1Discipline of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Faculty of Medicine of Triângulo Mineiro, Av. Getúlio Guaritá, s/n, 38025-440 Uberaba, MG, Brazil.

European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology
|March 24, 2004
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We describe the case of a patient who reported a 4-month history of edema in the lower right limb, which was accompanied by pain and paresthesia and which progressed to flaccid paraplegia. Two years earlier she had undergone a uterine curettage for hydatidiform mole. Metastases of a choriocarcinoma to the lumbar and sacral segments of the column were diagnosed.

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