TY - JOUR T1 - Choriocarcinoma with lung metastases during pregnancy with successful delivery and outcome after chemotherapy. JF - Thorax JO - Thorax SP - 416 LP - 418 DO - 10.1136/thx.45.5.416 VL - 45 IS - 5 AU - J Nabers AU - T A Splinter AU - H C Wallenburg AU - F J ten Kate AU - R Oosterom AU - C Hilvering Y1 - 1990/05/01 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/45/5/416.abstract N2 - A patient with an intrauterine pregnancy of 27 weeks had a coexisting pulmonary metastatic choriocarcinoma. On the chest radiograph the lung metastases appeared as pulmonary infiltrates, simulating atypical pneumonia. Serum human chorionic gonadotrophin levels were normal for gestational age. Treatment with methotrexate was successful. This is the first reported case of choriocarcinoma in a woman with a pregnancy of less than 35 weeks in which both mother and child survived. The case emphasises the need to consider choriocarcinoma in any pregnant woman who presents with haemoptysis and pulmonary nodules or infiltrates. ER -