Open AccessMultidisciplinary treatment of life-threatening hemoptysis and paraplegia of choriocarcinoma with pulmonary, hepatic and spinal metastases: A case report
Author(s) -
Yanjie Lin,
Yang Sun,
Yu Jiang,
Song Bao-zhi,
Lijuan Ke
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
world journal of clinical cases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.368
H-Index - 10
ISSN - 2307-8960
DOI - 10.12998/wjcc.v8.i17.3867
Subject(s) - medicine , choriocarcinoma , chemotherapy , paraplegia , malignancy , radiation therapy , surgery , radiology , spinal cord , psychiatry
Although choriocarcinoma is thought to be a malignancy curable by chemotherapy, there remain difficult and challenging problems in cases with high prognostic scores or extensive metastases, for which the treatment is limited. Particularly, chemotherapy in combination with other treatments offers promising therapeutic potential for these cases.