M Trigueros Velázquez, J A Sereno Coló, J Villagrán Urive
Ovarian choriocarcinoma from the germ cells is a very rare malignant neoplasia. About the pure form, very few cases have been reported in medical literature. Ovarian choriocarcinoma may originate in three modalities. As primary choriocarcinoma associated to ovarian pregnancy, 2. As a metastatic ovarian carcinoma, from other organs, mainly the uterus, 3. As a primary tumour of germ cells with differentiation to trophoblastic structures. The latter grows in girls or in adult woman, generally young, where necessarily pregnancy has to be excluded...
August 1995: Ginecología y Obstetricia de México