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Choriocarcinoma metastatic to the maxillary gingiva
A Altintas1, M A Vardar, N Aridoğan
1Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Medicine School of Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey.
Abstract:
A rare metastatic lesion from a gestational trophoblastic neoplasm is presented in a 26-year-old woman. The first symptom and sign was mild pain and a mass in the gingiva. The diagnosis was established by gingival biopsy. The patient was treated with 6 courses of methotrexate, actinomycin D and cyclophosphamide (MAC) and has no evidence of disease 2 years after completion of therapy.