Research letter
Primary gastric choriocarcinoma
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Katia Picazo Ferrera, Miguel Ángel Herrera Servin, Angélica I. Hernández Guerrero,
Choriocarcinomas are epitelial tumors with a rapidly growing rate and widely metastatic tumor of trophoblastic cells.
Incidence have been reported 1 in 24,096 pregnant patients. Most cases arise in the uterus following gestational events. It can also be gonadal or extragonadal. primary gastric choriocarcinoma is rare, represents 0.08% of all gastric cancers.
Clinical presentation is very similar to adenocarcinomas but they can present seric β-GCH elevation.
The main objective is present three cases of primary gastric choriocarcinoma with an initial miss diagnosis of adenocarcimoa.
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