ABSTRACT
A case of a 24-year-old multigravida, with dry cough, dyspnea, fatigue, and weight loss with normal foetal growth rate is reviewed. Upon admission the patient suddenly became tachycardic, tachypnoic, cyanotic, followed by a non-palpable peripheral pulse, and asystole unresponsive to resuscitation. The autopsy revealed massive pulmonary trophoblastic embolism, bilateral pregnancy luteoma, and accelerated placental maturation. Trophoblastic embolism should be taken into consideration whenever cardiorespiratory emergency develops during pregnancy.
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Pregnancy Complications , Pulmonary Embolism/diagnosis , Trophoblasts , Adult , Cyanosis/complications , Fatal Outcome , Female , Humans , Lung Diseases, Interstitial/complications , Luteoma/complications , Ovarian Neoplasms/complications , Placenta/pathology , Pregnancy , Pulmonary Embolism/complications , Pulmonary Embolism/pathology , Trophoblasts/pathologyABSTRACT
The small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the uterine cervix is a rare, but very aggressive neoplasm. Previous reports suggested that it had dismall prognosis if treated with conventional surgery and radiotherapy, even in early stage disease. We present the case of neuroendocrine cervical carcinoma that was cured from the disease following conventional surgery only.