Uterine gestational choriocarcinoma developing after a long latent period in a postmenopausal woman: the value of DNA polymorphism studies.

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This article reports a uterine gestational choriocarcinoma arising in a 57-year-old woman with a long latent period of 22 years from the last known pregnancy. Diagnosis was made on an endometrial biopsy specimen, and given the age of the patient, the long latent period, and the limited sample, trophoblastic differentiation within an endometrial carcinoma was considered. The results of DNA polymorphism studies...

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