Hydatidiform mole clinical and pathological characteristics
Objective: To determine clinical and pathological findings in hydatidiform mole. Design: Descriptive retrospective study. Material and methods: All cases de molar pregnancy attended at Dos de Mayo National Hospital (HNDM) between 1998 and 2001 were reviewed. Results: Twenty-four cases of hydatidifor...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2002 |
| País: | Perú |
| Recursos: | Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos |
| Repositorio: | Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe:article/1514 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/1514 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Mola hidatiforme complicaciones del embarazo neoplasmas uterinos Hydatidiform mole pregnancy complications uterine neoplasms |
| Resumo: | Objective: To determine clinical and pathological findings in hydatidiform mole. Design: Descriptive retrospective study. Material and methods: All cases de molar pregnancy attended at Dos de Mayo National Hospital (HNDM) between 1998 and 2001 were reviewed. Results: Twenty-four cases of hydatidiform mole were attended; mean age was 26,4 years ± 6,4 and gestational age 13,1 weeks ± 3,3. Past history only showed 1 and 3 cases of hyperemesis gravidarum and previous abortions, respectively; 18 pregnant women were multiparae. Symptoms on admission were hypogastric pain (75%), nausea and vomiting (29,2%), dysuria (20,8%) and headache (8,3%); and clinical sigsn, fetal absence (100%), vaginal bleeding (91,7%), soft uterus (45,8%), discordant uterine height (33,3%) and expulsion of vesicles (25%). Ultrasound diagnosis was hydatidiform mole with fetal absence (100%), ovarian enlargement (29,2%) and tecaluteinic cysts (25%). Average βhCG was 18167 UI/L. Transvaginal misoprostol was used previouly to dilatation and curettage in 37,5%. Pathology findings were corionic epitheliu moderate hyperplasia (62,5%), avascular estroma (50%) and edematous villi (20%). Conclusion: Our findings denote infrequent characteristics to the literature description on this pathology. |
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