A young multipara presented with acute abdominal pain. She had history of dilatation and evacuation for a missed miscarriage 2 months back. The diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy was made on the basis of clinical presentation and laboratory investigations. Laparoscopy was performed which revealed features of invasive mole. The procedure was converted to laparotomy and hysterectomy was performed. Pa...

Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN) is the term to describe a set of malignant placental diseases, including invasive mole, choriocarcinoma, placental site trophoblastic tumor and epithelioid trophoblastic tumor. Both invasive mole and choriocarcinoma respond well to chemotherapy, and cure rates are greater than 90%. Since the advent of chemotherapy, low-risk GTN has been treated with a s...

question?Is it possible by a study of the histological appearances in this condition to foretell what is going to happen in any particular case: whether it is going to become malignant or not, and, if possible, how is it possible ? Within recent years a large amount of literature has grown up around this subject, but apparently its only effect has been to introduce still more confusion into an ...