[Maternal fetal choriocarcinoma after normal delivery]

Materno-fetal choriocarcinoma discovered after a normal delivery is very rare. The risks for choriocarcinoma after a pregnancy at term is estimated at 1 in 100,000. All the same the ease with which the diagnosis is made by levels of plasma beta-hCG makes it possible to think of this possibility after delivery when there is maternal pathology which cannot be diagnosed or a fetal tumour that cannot be labelled. The transmission of this illness from mother to fetus evokes discussion about the tolerance of an allograft.