Primary mediastinal choriocarcinoma
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Primary mediastinal choriocarcinoma.
Primary mediastinal choriocarcinoma is a rare entity and is peculiar only to man. Although rigid criteria such as serial biopsies of the gonads are essential to rule out the possibility of such mediastinal tumor as a metastatic lesion, a review of the literature shows that anterior medlastinum is rarely involved by the metastasis from gonadal tumors. The clinical diagnosis of such a tumor can b...
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عنوان ژورنال: South Asian Journal of Cancer
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2278-330X
DOI: 10.4103/2278-330x.110495